And explaining the unerring similarities doesn’t require me to work through a reporter.

I understand this criticism. And it also gets in the way of objective criticisms of American Canto. For instance, the style and subject matter of the excerpt I read in Vanity Fair is really just a rip off Joyce Carol Oates’ novel Black Water.

I re-read Black Water last week to find out whether there was more crossover in that book to the VF excerpt I read. There’s a lot more.

Has anyone else noticed that Nuzzi’s book rips off Joyce Carol Oates’ novel Black Water. It’s a book about Chippaquiddick where Ted Kennedy is referred to as The Senator