How the NYT “Kidney Story” Became the Literary Scandal of the Year
On plagiarism and our response to conflicts between writers.
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6 min readOct 7, 2021
Writers on Twitter have been captivated—some, outraged—by an article published in The New York Times Magazine this past Tuesday on the drama between two fiction writers, Dawn Dorland and Sonya Larson. The online discourse is paving the way for this…