Plagiarist Nation

Talking gun running, plagiarizing online, and a deep dive into guest Divya Victor’s book, CURB.

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Episode Notes

Danny Lavery welcomes Divya Victor, a poet, author, and associate professor of English at Michigan State University. She recently published CURB, which documents how immigrants and Americans navigate the liminal sites of everyday living.

Lavery and Victor tackle two letters: First, from a writer who is wondering how to tell her friend that she may have married a criminal. The second is wondering if she should just fail most of her students, since online classes have made it easier to plagiarize.

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Every week, Danny M. Lavery brings on a guest to answer questions from listeners before diving into conversation about relationships, dissatisfaction, drives, regrets, estrangement, embarrassment, self-assessments, and feelings from the monumental to the minute.

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Danny M. Lavery is a co-founder of the Toast and the author of Texts From Jane Eyre, The Merry Spinster, Something That May Shock and Discredit You, and Dear Prudence: Liberating Lessons From Slate.com’s Beloved Advice Column. Lavery wrote Slate’s Dear Prudence column from 2016 to 2021. He writes an email newsletter at Substack called The Chatner.

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