Read an excerpt from R.F. Kuang's latest novel, here, then dive in with us throughout the month.
a cutting story about a struggling white writer who steals her dead Asian friend's manuscript, publishes it as her own, and grapples with the repercussions. Read an excerpt from the book below, then find out how to participate. and perhaps, because all bad things must be racially motivated,Plagiarism is an easy way out, the way you cheat when you can’t string words together on your own. But what I did was not. I did rewrite most of the book.
So perhaps we can view this as Athena’s great literary prank, as my complicating the reader-author relationship in a way that will provide juicy fodder for scholars for decades to come. I’d even begun toying around with some of my old ideas. They felt fresh now, vivid, and I could think of a dozen new directions in which to take them. The possibilities felt endless. It was like driving a new car or working on a new laptop. I’d somehow absorbed all the directness and verve of Athena’s writing. I felt, as Kanye put it, harder, better, faster, and stronger. I felt like the kind of person who now listened to Kanye.
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