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My co-worker Neel Shah wrote a piece for Gawker about Kaavya Viswanathan, the Harvard sophomore who, after receiving $500K for a two-book deal, has been accused of plagiarizing passages in her debut novel How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life.
Posted at 1:48 PM.
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Filthy Injun said...
Neel is hot. And I totally agree with what he says. I wonder, though, is this going to help her with her success or will her situation turn out like James Frey's? Can't wait for the year-end wrap up shows where she becomes a slightly tarnished footnote in the history of 2006.
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Hi, I'm Zach. I grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana and graduated from Wake Forest. After college, I moved to Manhattan to get serious about a company I ran with friends. We sold it to Barry Diller's InterActiveCorp in 2006. I just wrapped up with a project I co-founded called Vimeo and left CV to focus on being a twenty-five year old.

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