It's not about the kidney, it's about plagiarism. Molly and Tiffany lube you up with Kim Kardashian's SNL monologue before dragging you through the depths of this Sonya Larson/Grub Street/Dawn Dorland "drama" AKA hell.

LINKS!

“Who is the Bad Art Friend?” (via NYT)

Robert Kolker’s request to interview Sonya Larson

Celeste Ng (@pronounced_ing) on Twitter post-NYT article

“Bad Art Friend” court documents via Scribd

What to know about the years-long plagiarism dispute involving two Boston writers that has Twitter buzzing via Boston Globe

Inspiration or plagiarism? Writing hackles raised in Boston dispute via Boston Globe“The Kindest” by Sonya Larson (via court filings)

“All of The Corrections Dawn Dorland Sent Us About Our ‘Bad Art Friend’ blogs” (via Gawker)

@KidneyGate

Twitter thread from Dan Nguyen

Chip Cheek’s email about seeing Dawn in “Gundo” 

Dawn Dorland’s countersuit filing 

Document 118

Document 107, page 90 (Sonya’s first draft with more instances of what appears to be plagiarism and using the name “Dawn”/emails)

Document 112 (more receipts, Celeste Ng iMessage correspondence)

Document 120 (more receipts, “The first draft of the story really *was* a takedown of Dawn, wasn’t it?” “I would just tell her you’re still revising and hope that she forgets?”)

IdiotsContinue Substack

Joshua Luna on weaponizing a POC experience

Twitter thread from Heidi N. Moore

“Who is the Worse Art Friend” by Rafia Zakaria (via SubStack)

“Bad Art Friend Screenshots” via Dropbox 

DARVO

MFA Program for Writers faculty and alumni receive NEA Fellowships

Identity Fraud (via Gawker)

NYT comments:

“I've found that the attention-seeking amongst us, while often frustrating, are rarely afforded empathy”

https://nyti.ms/3lh710p#permid=114855813

“I am a published, award-winning writer”

https://nyti.ms/3AqTach#permid=114861952

“I met her once. Most of us didn’t know her well (if at all).”

https://nyti.ms/3086llR#permid=114862636

“The only evidence of entitlement I see here is a class one”

https://nyti.ms/3AdCCnQ#permid=114853186

“I too am a teacher who serves on an academic honor committee.”

https://nyti.ms/3uTZGHm#permid=114887748

“I was a student and intern at GrubStreet”

https://nyti.ms/3oJIDqe#permid=114854577

“What a lot of people seem uncomfortable with is the “vulgarity” of Dorland’s Facebook usage.”

https://nyti.ms/3ajvLi7#permid=114903949

“As someone who knew this person, I have found it frustrating to see her framed as "just a little weird,"

https://nyti.ms/3uZuy9g#permid=114902971

“If, the only reason Dorland donated a kidney was kindness and altruism why did she have to tell anyone about it”

https://nyti.ms/3mxGI5w#permid=114857767

“Dorlands demand that Larson validate her "altruism" is so blatantly and perversly self indulgent”

https://nyti.ms/3oLKpHi#permid=114920321

“But, does this self serving action give Larson the "right" to take Dorland's circumstance”

https://nyti.ms/3DshbRM#permid=114914003

“Her limited thinking there doesn't make me want to read Larson's work.”

https://nyti.ms/3ls9x3S#permid=114909129

“A write-up by the UCLA Medical Center about Dorland's donation (I’m not sure I’m allowed to link to it here)"

https://nyti.ms/3AoRgJ8#permid=114913506

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Please Don't Destroy (SNL)

Alexa Donne’s YouTube video “Who Is the Bad Art Friend? WRITER DRAMA EXPLAINED (Kidneys, Plagiarism & Group Chats)”

18 High Profile Cases of Plagiarism (via Ranker)

The White Bath for spiritual cleansing 

Outro song by Young036

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