The debacle of New Yorker staff writer Jonah Lehrer, who resigned from his job with the magazine this week after conceding that he had invented quotes attributed to Bob Dylan in his bestselling book “Imagine: How Creativity Works,” leaves one glaring lesson: Do better homework. In addition to Lehrer losing his job, his book is being yanked out of stores and has already disappeared from e-book sellers including Barnes & Noble and Amazon.com. A crucial part of Lehrer’s thesis was that Dylan couldn’t, or didin’t want to, explain his creative process. The passage that brought Lehrer down had Dylan reportedly saying, “I've got nothing to say about these...
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