Ali Wong is being approached to lead in the movie.

Doesn't/didn't Sidwell take a lot of journalists' kids? I knew some. Could be any one of those parents.

Anonymous wrote:I took my child there to be interviewed for admission, and we were both repulsed by the place. They emphasized that Chelsea Clinton went there, but all I could think of was Richard Nixon and the bombing of Cambodia.

Firstly you are lying. 🤥
Secondly 😂

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Anonymous wrote:I am worried that the author is white…it’s going to be a bad look.

I still dislike Celeste Ng from the Bad Art Friend story, so I also hope it’s not her, although I did enjoy Little Fires Everywhere pre-Bad Art Friend.

Um. Do you mean Sonya Larson, a completely different writer of Asian descent? Celeste Ng did not write the story at the heart of the Bad Art Friend thing.

No, but she was in the writing group, was quoted in the NYT story, and, depending on your take, was maybe one of the mean girls. Most famous person involved.

Yeah different poster here, Celeste Ng was part of the circle and came off very badly in that whole debacle (I mean they all did, but Ng was the only person I had heard of before.) Really made me not want to read anymore of her work. But I had thought Little Fires Everywhere was garbage anyway.

+1, the thing about Ng that annoyed me was that after the NYT article came out, she posted several cryptic things on Twitter that made it very clear she was still very much in mean girl mode on that one, which was a huge turn off. I genuinely liked the two novels of hers I read, but it was disappointing to see her lacking any self-reflection about her involvement in that situation. I definitely saw it as a "both sides behaved poorly in different ways" situation, but that's all the more reason for an adult to be like "hmm, I could have handled that differently." Ng really came off as childish and entitled, which I find especially grating from a writer who has experienced unusual amounts of commercial success (most of the other writers in that group have nowhere close to the kind of name recognition and financial success as Ng). Writing is a tough profession and doesn't really need mean girl gatekeepers making it even harder.

jsteele wrote:I just registered dcparentzone.com and will point it here. That should spur some conspiracy theories.

Brilliant!

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It sounds great! It seems to be a critical analysis on school DEI virtue-signaling, not a “woke” book.

We can dream — but that’s not what I’m getting from either the marketing (e.g. Celeste Ng comparison) or the Goodreads advance reviews. Not a lot of room for heterodoxy in the chick-literary niche.

A Celeste Ng comparison is not a compliment. She's the ultimate mean girl.

Ha. And why

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Anonymous wrote:It’s being shopped around Hollywood for a tv deal!

Funny. I know so many novelists whose work has been shopped around Hollywood and goes nowhere.

It says she’s on the PA and gala committee but not of which school

There is no gala and never has been.

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Yes but there’s an auction. Or at least there used to be. Literary license.

Sidwell still has a scholarship auction.

Not quite, no.

It may not be an auction per se, but Sidwell hosts an annual fundraiser to support financial aid recipients. It’s called “Founder’s Day for Scholars.”

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Anonymous wrote:I am worried that the author is white…it’s going to be a bad look.

I still dislike Celeste Ng from the Bad Art Friend story, so I also hope it’s not her, although I did enjoy Little Fires Everywhere pre-Bad Art Friend.

Um. Do you mean Sonya Larson, a completely different writer of Asian descent? Celeste Ng did not write the story at the heart of the Bad Art Friend thing.

No, but she was in the writing group, was quoted in the NYT story, and, depending on your take, was maybe one of the mean girls. Most famous person involved.

Yeah different poster here, Celeste Ng was part of the circle and came off very badly in that whole debacle (I mean they all did, but Ng was the only person I had heard of before.) Really made me not want to read anymore of her work. But I had thought Little Fires Everywhere was garbage anyway.

I took my child there to be interviewed for admission, and we were both repulsed by the place. They emphasized that Chelsea Clinton went there, but all I could think of was Richard Nixon and the bombing of Cambodia.

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Anonymous wrote:I am worried that the author is white…it’s going to be a bad look.

I still dislike Celeste Ng from the Bad Art Friend story, so I also hope it’s not her, although I did enjoy Little Fires Everywhere pre-Bad Art Friend.

Um. Do you mean Sonya Larson, a completely different writer of Asian descent? Celeste Ng did not write the story at the heart of the Bad Art Friend thing.

No, but she was in the writing group, was quoted in the NYT story, and, depending on your take, was maybe one of the mean girls. Most famous person involved.

Anonymous wrote:I am worried that the author is white…it’s going to be a bad look.

I still dislike Celeste Ng from the Bad Art Friend story, so I also hope it’s not her, although I did enjoy Little Fires Everywhere pre-Bad Art Friend.

Um. Do you mean Sonya Larson, a completely different writer of Asian descent? Celeste Ng did not write the story at the heart of the Bad Art Friend thing.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s being shopped around Hollywood for a tv deal!

Funny. I know so many novelists whose work has been shopped around Hollywood and goes nowhere.

It says she’s on the PA and gala committee but not of which school

There is no gala and never has been.

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Yes but there’s an auction. Or at least there used to be. Literary license.

Sidwell still has a scholarship auction.

Not quite, no.

Anonymous wrote:Why should anyone care about this story?

The same reason anyone should care about any story—because they’re interested in that particular story. If it doesn’t apply, let it fly.

Why should anyone care about this story?