"I was always in competition with the other big-name columnists -- who would shamelessly rob from me. You know, it's like I would be in Salon on Thursday, and something from it would show up in Maureen Dowd's weekend column, and so on. But I had to make sure that when people went to it that it didn't just seem to be a rehash of someone else's column."
From time to time it really seemed like different websites are reading each other and picking up on everybody else. For instance, Salon.com's Hillary Frey reviewed Rachel Ingalls' Times Like These on December 7th, 2005.
Then on December 23rd, 2005, The Village Voice similarly ran a review of the same book.
This is not the first instance of such coincidence. And Rachel Ingalls isn't a hyped-up author of the month. She's a relatively unknown cult author published by a small independent press that does not have the big publicity budget.
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