Author Tom Chiarella Responds To Shia Lebeouf Lifting His Words (VIDEO)

Chiarella joined HuffPost Live Thursday to respond to the incident. He said that he's more amused than angry about the plagiarism, but that like Baldwin, he too might be owed an apology from LaBeouf.

"It's comforting to me to know I'm read," said Chiarella, who also posted a response to the incident on Esquire's website. "I got into the business to be read. I didn't get into the business to be quoted without attribution and I didn't get into the business to solve debates between celebrities on nefarious emails."

Chiarella noted that he is curious how LaBeouf came across his essay, whether he had read it and remembered it or just stumbled upon it on Google.

"If he remembers it, then maybe it is what he knows about being a man and I taught him and he should send me a card for Father's Day," Chiarella told HuffPost Live.