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Anne Fadiman is--by her own admission--the sort of person who learned about sex from her father's copy of Fanny Hill, whose husband buys her 19 pounds of dusty books for her birthday, and who once found herself poring over her roommate's 1974 Toyota Corolla manual because it was the only written material in the apartment that she had not read at least twice.
My favorites are Marrying Libraries, Nothing New Under the Sun (interesting facts about plagiarism), My Odd Shelf and Never Do That to a Book. In this last one, Fadiman says that we should not take excessive care of physical books (I know I do sometimes), so I'm glad I read it laying in the sand under a light.
Distillation: In Anne Fadiman’s Nothing New Under the Sun, she argues that plagiarism is a complicated issue that has become too commonplace even amongst the most talented writers. She explains that people rationalize their plagiarism by making the comparison that just like by a recipe, an added dash of salt can make it “your own”, so too an added comma or quote to a literary piece can.
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Anne Fadiman, the daughter of Annalee Whitmore Jacoby Fadiman, a screenwriter and foreign correspondent, and Clifton Fadiman, an essayist and critic, was born in New York City in 1953. She graduated in 1975 from Harvard College, where she began her writing career as the undergraduate columnist at Harvard Magazine.
Anne Fadiman. This collection of essays about books and reading is a delight for a book lover to read. Each essay focuses on a different aspect of the life of a devoted reader, and while it is clear that the author takes her subject matter seriously, she doesn't take herself too seriously, giving the essays a wry sense of humor and fun. Favorite Entry.
If I had to choose a favourite, “Nothing New Under the Sun” might make the cut. It is a sly investigation into plagiarism that should be read by every teacher and every writer everywhere. The footnotes are screamingly funny. I would love to plagiarize it, but I won’t. I remember exactly how I came to be in possession of this book. It was.
In case this seems singular, it’s worth noting another surprisingly bold plagiarism: According to Anne Fadiman in her essay “Nothing New Under the Sun,” 2 the Pulitzer Prize-winning author ofHiroshima, John Hersey, stole extensive reportage done for Timemagazine by Fadiman’s mother and stepfather.
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In the late 1980s he apologized for lifting material from another writer’s book, and Anne Fadiman, the editor of The American Scholar, says Hersey pilfered her journalist mother’s combat.
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The New Lifetime Reading Plan Clifton Fadiman, John S. Major The first edition of this classic came out in 1960 and I was given a copy the next year as a high school graduation gift.
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Anne Fadiman is an enthusiast, and that serves her well when she writes about writers. The best essays in her new collection, At Large and at Small, are devoted to Coleridge and Charles Lamb.Unfortunately, most of her familiar essays, as she calls them, are given over to such subjects as ice cream and coffee, which bring out in Fadiman the fussy, the cute (even her Lamb essay is titled “The.