Earlier this week, I told you about new New Yorker staff writer Jonah Lehrer recycling his old writing for his new blog. Fearsome-but-trustworthy blogger Edward Champion suspected that these five cases of recycling were just the beginning, and now it looks like he's right: Champion began by going through Lehrer's recent book Imagine to determine how much of that material has been recycled from earlier work by Lehrer. He's found multiple counts of recycling.

While many non-writer types might wonder what the big deal is—after all, he wrote the words, right? It's not like he stole them from someone else!—it is a big deal for writers. A lot of those pieces that Lehrer wrote for magazines were bought and paid for, so he's essentially double-dipping other peoples' intellectual property without permission. And when you write a piece for a magazine or a publisher, the intent is that you're providing all-new content for them, unless otherwise specified.

And besides, it looks like Lehrer may have stolen some words from someone else: Champion has found several instances where it appears that Lehrer has plagiarized material from Malcolm Gladwell. Looks like this story is far from over.