A LitHub essay on plagiarism has been removed due to plagiarism..

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Writer Jumi Bello recently saw her highly-anticipated debut novel The Leaving pulled from publication by Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Group. The reason is that Bello reached out to her editor and conceded that she had in fact plagiarized several passages in the book.
A few months later, Bello published an essay on LitHub (archived) explaining how and why she did what she did. It's a surprisingly moving essay, one that viscerally explores Bello's struggles with mental illness, and the pressures she felt not only as a person with a mental illness living in a country with a slipshod healthcare system, but also a Black woman who is suddenly and unexpectedly been welcomed into the upper echelons of the elite Literati culture she has viewed from the outside for so long.

Where it gets weird, however, is that Bello's essay on LitHub in which she explained all of this … also plagiarized some passages. She wrote:

Plagiarism has been with us since the birth of language and art. For as long as there have been words to be read, there has been someone there copying the passages. It goes as far back as 8 AD with the poet Martial who caught another poet Fidentinus reciting his work. He called Fidentinus a plagiarus, meaning a "kidnapper."]


Which, Gawker noted, was which lifted and lightly re-written from a decade-old article published on — no joke! — Plagiarism Today. Or perhaps, irony or ironies, it had been lifted from a 2019 turnitin article on "5 Historical Moments that Shaped Plagiarism," which also maybe plagiarized from Plagiarism Today?


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