Talk:Elizabeth Wurtzel

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[edit] Plagarism Accusations

Wurtzel was, prior to writing "Prozac Nation", fired from The Dallas Morning News for plagarizing another writer's work. I hadn't known this before and I think it should be included in this article because she's supposedly a journalist, and we should be made aware of a journalist who is a known plagarist.

Here is a link to an article that discusses the plagarism incident

http://themediamob.observer.com/2006/03/the-liars-club-an-incomplete-history-of-untruths-and-consequ.html

And here's the excerpted section of the article dealing w/ Wurtzel:

The Accused: Elizabeth Wurtzel

Crime Against Journalism: Plagiarism

Rap Sheet: In 1988, Wurtzel was accused of lifting passages from another writer's work in her work in The Dallas Morning News. (See: Beg, Borrow, Or..., by Dwight Garner, Salon, July 22, 1996.)

Plea: None.

Sentence Fired from The Dallas Morning News.

Afterlife: After her firing, Wurtzel managed to become the music critic for New York, The New Yorker, and publish the memoir Prozac Nation in 1997. (That book also faced accusations of fabrications). In 2004, Wurtzel was accepted by Yale Law School.

Hollywood Ending: The film version of Wurtzel's Prozac Nation was made in 2001 but didn't appear in the U.S. until 2005 when it went direct to cable.

[edit] 9/11 Comments

The comments Wurtzel made regarding 9/11 are listed on the Prozac Nation page (as a possible explination as to why the movie was not released in theaters), but I feel they belong on the author's page. I don't want to turn this into an anti-Wurtzel page (and keeping in mind that many other writers/actors/etc. have publicly said stupid things about terrorism/Sept. 11) but the fact is she caught a lot of flack for saying this. Wurtzel being an "outspoken" person, should be held to what she says.

Here is an excerpt from the Prozac Nation article's section on the 9/11 controversy

[Wurtzel] was quoted in a February 16, 2002 article by Jan Wong titled, "That's enough about me, now, what do you think of me?", for The Globe and Mail in Toronto:

[About 9/11] My main thought was: What a pain in the ass... I had not the slightest emotional reaction. I thought, this is a really strange art project... It was a most amazing sight in terms of sheer elegance. It fell like water. It just slid, like a turtleneck going over someone's head... It was just beautiful. You can't tell people this. I'm talking to you because you're Canadian... I just felt like everyone was overreacting. People were going on about it. That part really annoyed me... I cried about all the animals left there in the neighbourhood... I think I have some kind of emotional block. I think I should join some support group for people who were there... You know what was really funny? After the fact, like, all these different writers were writing these things about what it was like, and nobody bothered to call me.