Of all the critique and debate I’ve read on Kaavya Viswanathan this NY Times Op-Ed piece has to be the cleverest and most to the point. I found it while visiting Bookslut yesterday. John Kenney is being interviewed by Larry King about his new bestselling novel “The Great Gatsby.”

MR. KING Are there similarities between your new novel, “The Great Gatsby” and “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald?

MR. KENNEY Not so much “similarities.” They’re actually identical.

MR. KING I see.

MR. KENNEY Except for my name as author.

Meanwhile, I’m trying to remember a movie I saw in which the female protagonist had submitted a PhD thesis, which was found to include plagiarised ideas/content. The protagonist could not remember consciously copying stuff, and was was going through a bad time when actually writing the thesis.