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Jane Smiley will be reading from Ten Days in the Hills at the Brattle Theatre at 6:00 pm tomorrow night. Tickets are $3 and are available from Harvard Book Store.

Oh it’s been a doozy of a week for Harvard sophomore, Kaavya Viswanathan, since her college paper, the Crimson, first reported that her novel, How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild and Got a Life, is just a bit too similar to author Megan F. McCafferty’s novels. At first, Viswanathan told the media that she had “no idea what they are talking about” and then went about her normal life as a Harvard co-ed. Of...

While Bostonist constantly struggles to get you the latest news here in the city, we like to think that we’ve got our act together (somewhat)…that is until we read about someone much younger who has accomplished something that we some day hope to. Last week, we read an article from the A.P. Wire about a Harvard student, Kaavya Viswanathan, who at age 17, signed a two-book deal with publishing house Little, Brown for a reported...

The author behind that J. Crew belted book, "Prep," is coming to town tonight to promote the newly released paperback version of her bestseller. Author Curtis Sittenfeld, who took this book to 14 publishers before it was finally picked up by Random House, tells the story of Lee Fiora, who decides to enroll in the posh, fictious, Boston area Ault Prep School. Of course little Lee is not as wealthy, popular, or self-assured as her classmates, which makes for an interesting tale with lots of juicy gossip about life at a boarding school. Bostonist first read Prep when it came out in January and was thoroughly surprised at our enjoyment in it. This is Sittenfeld’s first novel, which she happened to write while teaching at DC's St. Albans School. This might explain how she was able to capture the prep school environment in her book, but not as much as her having attended Groton. Of course, she does have a writing background, too: she won the Seventeen Magazine fiction writing contest at age 16 and has written for numerous magazines. We are a fan of Sittenfeld and are already looking forward to her second novel, "The Man of My Dreams," coming out next summer.