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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Larson was wrong to rip off Darmond’s letter, but at this point Darmond is a clueless attention seeker trying to destroy Larson’s career. SHE requested the subpoena for the mean texts. She pitched the story to the NYT! All because Larson and her community didn’t properly acknowledge her navel-gazing Facebook posts about her kidney donation. I don’t have sympathy for Larson, she dug her own grave, but Darmond is a nut case. I’m shocked she passed the psychological test to donate an organ, honestly.[/quote]

That Darmond is a nut case is not in doubt.  She seems, however to have some kind of a moral compass.

Whether or not Larson and her friends do is debatable.[/quote]

How is Dawn the “nut case”? She seems earnest and awkward, but also vulnerable and sincere. She wasn’t a cool kid and was mocked relentlessly for it - well before discovering her “friend” lifted very personal Facebook posts for literary inspiration, publishing some verbatim.

[b]Dawn reacted as I believe many of us would - she was hurt, angry, and sought some sort of acknowledgement - first from Larson and then from publishers, etc - that she’d been wronged. [/b]

I feel for Dawn and find the continually description of her as a “nut” or “crazy” so misogynistic and loaded with the same toxicity that led to her being bullied to begin with. [/quote]

+1 especially your the bolded

Reading that timeline from Summer Brennan, that’s what jumps out at me. Dorland’s reaction to Larson’s behavior (and it is Larson who initiates this conflict, unquestionably) is, if anything, restrained. She is experiencing a personal attack. She tries to resolve it person to person, and fails because Larson has zero interest in resolving it. She tries to ignore it (for two years!) and fails, both because Larson pushes to get this story more and more exposure AND because Dorland learns Larson has essentially copied her private letter into the story. She attempt to resolve it using minimal legal intervention (asking for the story to be published with acknowledgement, with the letter remove, or alongside a response from Dorland) and fails, because Larson sues. And then she attempts to settle and/or mediate and fails, because Larson will not accept a compromise.

The miracle here is that Dorland is NOT nuts. That she has held onto her dignity and sense of self despite this situation.

Another thing that jumps out from the timeline is that Larson and several CMs actually acknowledge that it’s reasonable for Dorland to be hurt. But they expect her to simply live with that hurt and not respond. This is fascinating to me. They feel Larson’s actions in using the letter and appropriating Dawn fit the story are okay, because it’s an artistic choice. But Dorland’s decision to fight back is somehow not, because it’s a personal human choice, not cloaked in “art”. Why?[/quote]

Agree with all of this.

Summer Brennan's work is meticulous and paints an entirely different story.[/quote]

Kolker is not actually a reporter. My guess is he never bothered to do the work of constructing a timeline. He just pulled a few juicy parts out and then hand-waves about “mystery” and “narratives.”[/quote]

He self-describes as an investigative journalist. Though why anyone would trust anything he writes again is beyond me. [/quote]

he does “explorations” and “long form” journalism. All about creating a “narrative” himself - not about actually documenting a complex set of facts. [/quote]

(and BTW - a riffing “exploration” or musing on what it means to be a “bad art friend” may be a perfectly legitimate form of writing. But it is NOT an objective account of chronological facts. My sense is this is Kolker schtick - and he believes he has the authority to shape the narrative the way he believes it goes, subjectively.)[/quote]

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