The Day - Tipping Point: Our picks and pans (Tom Jones, "The Plot," Crowded House" - News from southeastern Connecticut
Jean Hanff Korelitz Most scholars accept there are only seven "plots" from which novelists draw. I guess one of them is: frustrated author somehow becomes privy to a great plot and has reason to believe he or she can steal it without getting caught because it's an occasionally recurring motif in suspense fiction. Jake is a former literary-underkind-turned-mediocre-professor. An annoying student shares a sure-thing idea with Jake, then ends up dead a few years later. Jake sniffs around, realizes the pupil never did anything with his concept, and helps himself to the idea. As written by Jak...
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