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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-story-at-the-center-of-the-bad-art-friend-saga

This is probably not how Sonya hoped to appear in the New Yorker. [/quote]

Wow wow wow.

Maybe she shouldn't be quoting Helen Rosner, who tweeted about Dawn Dorland "This woman is a monster."
 
FFS, this literary incestuousness is revolting.

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Rosner, who I normally like, was how I first heard about this story and was introduced to it. I went into the NYT mag piece assuming I'd agree with her because her take was so definitive and aggressively anti-Dorland.

So I was honestly confused when I read it because I just couldn't agree? I mean, it's a complicated story so I was not surprised that people might differ in their interpretation. But Rosner and others were arguing that Dorland was a racist sociopath. That's a weird reaction and I think has to be influenced by Ng's involvement in the story. Writers are a clubby bunch and Ng has a lot of cache. I like her writing (I'm not going to pretend I don't) but I hope her standing in the lit world ultimately takes a hit after this because it should. What she's doing isn't helping Larson. It's making them both look worse. [/quote]

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