[benjaminwootton]

I didn’t know this back story, but I thought Lost Connections was very insightful, and he is very credible in his PR:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/5vGQgHxUDx2KMhy34N2959?si=j...

I always thought he had a strange way of being interviewed where he cites sources and studies for almost everything he says. I thought this was commendable at the time rather than putting a thin veneer on other peoples ideas. Maybe it was due to the past accusation of plagiarism.

[krrrh]

I think it is a response to the accusations of plagiarism and quote fabrication. When he was trying to reclaim respectability he released a companion website to Chasing the Scream that had extensive transcriptions and audio excerpts of source interviews for all direct quotes in the book [0]. It went way beyond what the vast majority of authors do, but it would be nice to see more of that sort of thing in the publishing industry.

[0] https://chasingthescream.com/interviews-2/