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The New Yorker doesn't mention a controversy, it leads off with the question of "Several readers have noticed the parallels between your story and Alice Munro’s story “Corrie,” which was published in the magazine, in 2010. You’ve mentioned that “Benji” was modeled on “Corrie”; can you talk about what
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There has been a degree of edit-warring over this content recently, resulting in page protection, but the edit warring has continued. I'm opening a discussion here to decide what, if any, of this content should be included. The only sources provided so far have fallen woefully short of
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In what way do these edits violate a policy? They’re about a significant event in the subject’s career, sourced to a reputable source (
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you hoped that modeling would do?"". Not a good use of the source. ---Lilach5 (
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