Any club that would have me for a member.
Not quite a kidney story take.
The big story of this week, last week, every week in the future, was the New York Times Magazine piece about the legal disputes between Sonya Larson (a writer) and Dawn Dorland (another writer). This newsletter is not about that except insofar as it is the inspiration. But, recap1: Larson and Dorland were friends or acquaintances, Dorland did a non-targeted kidney donation and posted a letter she’d written to a small Facebook group meant to be a support group, Larson found this ridiculous and eventually lifted the text of the letter for a short story (“The Kindest”), Dorland found out and filed a copyright claim, Larson sued Dorland, and in the discovery process for that lawsuit it came out that Larson and her friends had been making fun of Dorland behind her back for years (before the legal disputes started and after).2
The conversation has been consumed by everybody’s favorite question: Who’s bad?3 Anyway I’m not…
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