How the NYT “Kidney Story” Became the Literary Scandal of the Year

On plagiarism and our response to conflicts between writers.

Xi Chen
Physician Writer
Published in
6 min readOct 7, 2021

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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…

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