Controversy
“Hateful, Hurtful, and Hellish” was an article by Alexander Theroux that was published on June 1, 1995 in the San Diego Reader in which he stated, “I was being charged with plagiarism in a work of non-fiction with less than 150 of about 80,000 words—in a book citing upwards of a thousand or more disparate quotations taken from film, literature, science, art, religion, cooking, painting, botany, music, etc.—which amounted to an offending .0001875 percent, according to the San Diego Reader, a periodical that published the full explanation that I composed within a week of the charges being made, when the New York Times, particularly editor Chip McGrath of the ‘Book Review’ cravenly refused to run it, although that it was that newspaper that on March 3, 1995 made the front-page allegation. “It was an ignominious moment in my life, to be sure, although the accusation, which was literally true but morally not—since intention was not involved—had a dirty provenance, to my mind, not only because it was a nonstory but because it involved but a few sentences.
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