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Tu May 2 -

THE OPAL PROCESS -

*A Harvard University student's "chick lit" novel has been permanently withdrawn and her two-book deal canceled, publisher Little, Brown and Co. announced Tuesday, as allegations of literary borrowing proliferated against Kaavya Viswanathan's "How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild and Got a Life."*

:: Hillel Italie, AP/Yahoo ::

+ What interests me about this,
I think, is the process which
culminated in the "package."
Here are two more links:

:: From Ruth Marcus ::
-- at WaPo [RegReq'd] ::

:: From Kimberly Maul ::
-- at The Book Standard --

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++ Extra Note: Blogger seems
to be having server issues;
it was down for awhile.
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