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The article focuses on issues concerning literary plagiarism. It is informed that novelist Jacob Epstein copied down passages from several famous authors while writing his novel and overlooked or misplaced the attributions. Epstein's case and its coverage made publicity-starved authors across the country to confess publicly to acts of literary plagiarism. Some cases of literary plagiarism have been nothing more than fraudulent attempts to attract publicity.

Offers observations on plagiarism. The plagiarizing charges against historians Stephen Ambrose and Doris Kearns Goodwin; History of plagiarism as a concept; View that the increase of mass-produced books has furthered the problem; The lack of clear-cut definitions.

The article offers insight of authors on the things they usually do that they regret upon performing their profession. Author Anna Holmes conveys her attempt in avoiding mimicry and notes complex and long sentences crafting, aggressive assumption and insertion of herself into reported narratives as her regrets. Author Leslie Jamison feels an urge of articulating every impulse or notion he had to earn the trust of her readers.

Describes the author's experiences of plagiarism. Reactions to the discovery of a plagiarized work; Scenarios of plagiarism; Lesson learned from the experience.

Discusses the use of the term "self-expression" in relation to poetry and writing. How the author has taken other writer's poems and rewrote them a little for his own uses; Comments on plagiarism; Examples of authors who have also taken the words of others and presented them in a different manner as their own.