Brad Vice Accused of Plagiarism / The Bear Bryant Funeral Train Yanked - The Clarion-Ledger

The Bear Bryant Funeral Train (Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction) by Brad Vice

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MSU prof accused of plagiarism; book pulled - The Clarion-Ledger: A Mississippi State University professor could lose his job for using material from another author in an award-winning short story collection he wrote. Brad Vice, an assistant professor of English at MSU since 2002, said he did not intend any harm.“ I only wish I could make amends,” he said in an e-mail to The Clarion-Ledger on Wednesday. “I never saw this coming.” Last year, Vice's The Bear Bryant Funeral Train, a collection of short stories about his native Alabama, received the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction from its publisher, the University of Georgia Press.
Oops.
The publisher discovered in October that one of the stories, “Tuscaloosa Knights,” contained material taken directly from Stars Fell on Alabama, a book by Carl Carmer.
Sorry, Carl. Didn't think you would notice.
Vice's award was revoked and will be given to another finalist. The publisher discontinued selling the book and is recalling others. “I regret that GA press felt they could no longer keep the book in print due to my error,” Vice wrote.
What? Error? Plagiarism is an “error”?
Vice, 31, said a 20-page description in his book of a 1927 Klan rally drew from Carmer's four-page account of the same rally. He said he believed he did not need to cite the source because what he was writing was common knowledge.
As the Donald would say, you're fired. Every English 101 teacher in the nation knows that if you copy something word for word, you have to cite your sorce. It's more than a bit troubling if this is really what he believes, but I have a feeling he's fudging the truth a bit. Sigh.

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