How a Third World Plagiarist Got Caught
by Ian Mosley
A Gentile author has a nearly impossible time getting published today especially if the proposed book or movie script has a hero resembling John Wayne. Lesbian action heroes seem to be the latest fad in Hollywood. Anything with a Third World theme has a good chance of getting published. If you’ve got a brown skin and you’re female and from the Third World and writing some decadent script with a Third World theme, you can be in like Flint with a six-figure advance for your first novel! Ask Kaavya Viswanathan, a Harvard University sophomore, whose book “How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild and Got a Life” was signed by the New York publishing giant Little, Brown and Company, amidst immense fanfare, while the Third Worlder was hailed as the greatest female literary genius since Gertrude Stein. (A no-talent leftist hack if ever there were one.)
There was just one little problem: Little, Brown and Company have had to pull all of the copies of the book off the shelves due to blatant plagiarism on the part of the East Asian author, which she has tearfully confessed. Viswanathan has now acknowledged that she stole numerous passages and in one case apparently a whole chapter from Megan McCafferty, whose books include “Sloppy Firsts” and “Second Helpings.” Apparently enough women read McCafferty’s work so that the copied sections of the Viswanathan manuscript were spotted almost immediately by Meg’s adoring fans and reported to her publisher. McCafferty’s attorneys allege that at least 40 passages in the Viswanathan book “contain identical language and/or common scene or dialogue structure.” (more…)