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Can we stop listening to her after she admits she didn't read his book? That's pretty ballsy to libel Eggers without even cracking the spine.
by andrewljohnson 13y ago
Can we stop listening to her after she admits she didn't read his book? That's pretty ballsy to libel Eggers without even cracking the spine.
- benastan 13y agoDid you read her book? Her point is not that Eggers plagiarized her wholesale, rather that the themes, characters, and plot are uncannily similar to those of her book. But his work receives buzz and hers is passed over. Somehow a hyperbolized book of fiction written by a famous white man is worthy of attention and lofty comparisons while a memoir by a woman who experienced 'boy kings' firsthand, dealing with identical themes, is overlooked.