Opal Mehta's meta-conversation: Sorry doesn't cut it.
A day after Kaavya Viswanathan‘s apology to the world and to her muse, Megan McCafferty, the controversy shows no signs of letting up. (Nor do it’s sales; it jumped from No. 178 to No. 82 on Amazon.com in just 24 hours.)
Random House exec Steve Ross, issued a blistering statement this afternoon:
“We find both the responses of Little Brown and their author Kaayva Viswanathan deeply troubling and disingenuous. Ms. Viswanathan’s claim that similarities in her phrasing were ‘unconscious’ or ‘unintentional’ is suspect.
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