“Ultimately, as a reader and a writer, I find hope in resistance, in the very act of writing against this culture–even when it is without ‘the old excitement of creation’…”
Suzanne Scanlon, Rumpus pal and author of Promising Young Women, talks about anticipatory plagiarism in her self-interview on The Nervous Breakdown.
The notion that our ideas can be regenerated throughout time without us ever being aware of the aforementioned idea is something many are familiar with. Scanlon contemplates the eerie similarities between her novel and Shulamith Firesone’s Airless Spaces and embraces the power of stories being retold.
