God Bless Us, Every Lowell Mill Girl
Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol is so beloved a classic that names like “Scrooge” and “the ghost of Christmas past” have entered our daily lexicon, and we continue to reinterpret the…
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Characters, Too Inspired
Five years ago Lynn Coady published a novel with a protagonist drawn partially from the life of a real, thirty-years-deceased poet, and a experienced firsthand earful from an audience full…
A History of Plagiarism
What do Bob Dylan, Eli Wallach and Nabokov have in common? Artistic appropriation. And it’s not just those guys—but possibly all artists. Appropriation, recasting stories and lines into another form,…
The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
Everything about these quotes GIANT dug up by Klaus Kinsky is amazing. At TMN, this is what happens when you interview someone you busted for plagiarism. Here are lots of…
The Blurb #11: A Fresh Eye
Why do so many of us, as readers or maybe as a society, assume that originality springs forth out of nothing, although at the same time we understand that every idea, every story, has a precedent?