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Mar 12, 2012

Re: The Plagiarist’s Tale

I was the editor at Grove/Atlantic to whom Quentin Rowan’s novel “Appearance and the Park” was submitted (“The Plagiarist’s Tale,” by Lizzie Widdicombe, February 13th & 20th). Widdicombe writes that the editor in question thought that “its plot was too . . .
Mar 12, 2012

Re: The Plagiarist’s Tale

If Rowan’s medium were software instead of words, he might have avoided the guilt and shame that derailed him. In the world of open-source software, there is no shame in copying. Indeed, software reuse is widely recognized as a virtue; a considerable amount of open-source software . . .
Feb 13, 2012

The Plagiarist’s Tale

LIFE AND LETTERS about plagiarist Quentin Rowan. Spy novels embrace clichés and “Assassin of Secrets,” published last fall, made a virtue of this tendency, piling one trope onto another. The author of “Assassin of Secrets” was a thirty-five-year-old début novelist with the pen name Q. R. Markham…
November 10, 2011

Q. R. Markham’s Plagiarism Puzzle

It’s one of the more puzzling plagiarism tales of recent memory: Q. R. Markham, the pen name of Quentin Rowan, a part owner of the bookstore Spoonbill and Sugartown, signed a deal with Little, Brown...
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