The pile on began soon after, and quickly spiraled into darker territory. I’m having a really hard time right now and this is just mean and cruel. “We put our heart and soul into the stories we write often because it is literally how we survive in this world. “Authors are real people,” tweeted Dessen, with a screenshot of Nelson’s quote. So I became involved simply so I could stop them from ever choosing Sarah Dessen.” “But definitely not up to the level of Common Read. “She’s fine for teen girls,” Nelson said. Dessen was upset because a 2017 Northern State graduate named Brooke Nelson had told the Aberdeen News that she didn’t think Dessen’s work was worthy of inclusion in the program back in 2016, when she was a junior. Each year, a committee of students, professors, and local community members picks a book for every first-year student to read, and then invites the author to give a talk. The drama began on Tuesday morning, when Dessen tweeted about an innocuous local news story about the ten-year anniversary of Northern State University’s “Common Read” program. Young-adult book Twitter took an especially surreal turn this week when the best-selling novelist Sarah Dessen took offense at a brief critique of her work, inciting a minor Twitter riot, with some of the most famous writers in the world jumping into the fray to defend her. In 2016, Sarah Dessen’s book, Saint Anything, was one of 52 considered for selection in Northern State University’s “Common Read” program.
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