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Jul 16 2008 12:00am EDT

Arianna Huffington Plagiarizes Herself

Don't ask blog empress Arianna Huffington to blurb your book -- unless you don't mind recycled praise.

As the guest writer of today's Very Short List culture newsletter, Huffington recommended buying a new memoir by New York Times columnist (and Fox News antagonist) David Carr. "The Night of the Gun," she writes, "is the fierce, funny, disturbing, brutally honest, and ultimately uplifting story of Carr's descent into a self-inflicted hell and bumpy return trip to life."

If that phrase sounds suspiciously polished, perhaps it's because Huffington called blogger Chez Pazienza's memoir, Dead Star Twilight, "a fierce, funny, disturbing, but ultimately uplifting memoir. This is the book A Million Little Pieces dreamed of being."

For what it's worth, Carr's book is supposed to be terrific. Just don't take Huffington's word for it.


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By the way, usage police, I know it's technically impossible to plagiarize from oneself. Save your keystrokes.

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