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...year ago this week, Christina F. Starobin ’71 was nursing a newly shattered dream. U.S. District Judge David Hurd had just dismissed on summary judgment a complaint Starobin filed alleging the “literary rape” of her unpublished vampire novel manuscript Blood Eternal by horror entrepreneur Stephen King in his 1996 ephemeral-spirit novel Desperation...
...Starobin can no longer legally call the incident plagiarism because Hurd decided against her. Well, actually, he decided against both of them from the start...
...Quite frankly, neither work was a particularly good read,” he writes, after admitting to a first read of both King and Starobin. She is shot down again when Hurd asserts: “There are no common characters, locations, or occurrences shared by her novel and King’s. There are no common references to popular culture, historical events or common sequences of events...
...Shana M. Starobin...
...Elizabeth D. Chao '00, Kathryn B. Clancy '01, Svetla Gueorguieva '02, Irene B. Janis '03, Jessica A. Larson '00, Peggy T. Lim '00, Maryanthe E. Malliaris '01, Jotin Marango '01, Meredith B. Osborn '02, Mark D. Palmenter '00, Kamil E. Redmond '00, Sarah B. Stapleton '02, Shana M. Starobin '00 and Sinead B. Walsh...