Who Is the Bad Art Friend?
There is a sunny earnestness to Dawn Dorland, an un-self-conscious openness that endears her to some people and that others have found to be a little extra. Her friends call her a “feeler”: openhearted and eager, pressing to make connections with others even as, in many instances, she feels like an outsider. An essayist and aspiring novelist who has taught writing classes in Los Angeles, she is the sort of writer who, in one authorial mission statement, declares her faith in the power of fiction to “share truth”, to heal trauma, to build bridges. (“I’m compelled at funerals to shake hands with the dusty men who dig our graves”, she has written.)… Seguir leyendo »