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...mother works with a large number of Asian-American students, almost all of whom are recent arrivals from China, Indonesia, Vietnam, and Thailand. She went on to detail the superhuman—to me at least—exertions of her students and their parents. Yes, the “hard working immigrant” is a standby American cliché, but the people I had described to me were dedicated in a way that I can only vaguely imagine...
...Yes,” I lie, as visions of platters of red-spiced chicken and bottomless cones of Fro-Yo dance through my head. “It’s terrible.” But the truth is, as much as I feel spoiled by Harvard’s housing and dining system—and as unusual I recognize it to be in the greater scheme of college life—I also think that the onus is on students to take their own initiative in preparing themselves for life in the “real world...
Please, can we declare an end to the year of the literary gotcha? Because I?m fresh out of outrage. Yes, I cared that James Frey exaggerated or fabricated parts of his memoir A Million Little Pieces. I sort of cared that Kaavya Viswanathan borrowed bits of her young adult novel (the title of which is too long to bother typing) from other young adult novels. I even sort of tried to care that J.T. Leroy, the author of assorted literary works that almost nobody besides Courtney Love had read, was himself fabricated by a San Francisco couple looking...
...What are you gonna do. Yes, it's easy give McEwan a pass because he's a writer of high literary merit - Atonement was TIME's book of the year in 2001. Yes, I feel a personal karmic debit to McEwan, because I once misspelled his name as McKewan very publicly in print and feel guilty about it (I was thinking of Ian McKellen, OK?) One could haul out the usual verities about how all great writers steal, Shakespeare included, and how in the Middle Ages plagiarism wasn't even considered a bad thing, but it's really not necessary...
...Yes, I enjoy a good wallow in Schadenfreude as much as the next voyeuristic American mediaholic, but please, don't insult me. I have some pride left. At least Frey's and Viswanathan's books were lousy. For all the ink that's already been spilled over what I refuse to call a literary imbroglio, the only person who's gone on record with any public anger at McEwan is Andrews' former agent, Vanessa Holt. "I was very angry about it," she told the Daily Mail. "I felt that it was at the very least discourteous of Ian McEwan...