The Dalton School
Anisha Lakhani, Ex-Dalton Teacher, Spills the Beans in New Novel; 'You Can't Help If Someone Calls You a Hypocrite'
"It's a story about a teacher, but it's also a story about how certain children on a certain island are getting through schools seemingly magically, but maybe not so," said the tutor-cum-novelist Anisha Lakhani the other day. Her first book, Schooled, out this week, was inspired by her experiences teaching and tutoring wealthy Manhattan schoolchildren. "I never went into teaching thinking that I was going to write a book about this. But slowly I started into the world of tutoring and I found it funny in a grotesque kind of way."
After graduating from Columbia University in 1998, Ms. Lakhani, who is 32, took a job teaching 7th grade English at Dalton. read more »
Morning Memo: Madonna and A-Rod? Sir Sean Connery and Trump?
Amidst divorce rumors, Madonna may be having an affair with Yankee, Alex Rodriguez. [Us Weekly]
In a freak year at The Dalton School, not a single student got into Harvard and many are finding themselves attending non-Ivies like Syracuse, Vanderbilt, and Tulane. [Page Six Magazine via Daily Intel]
Gossip Girl's Blake Lively politely asks you not to compare her to Paris Hilton since she doesn't go to clubs, dance on tables, or like sex tapes, she says. [P6]
Christie Brinkley and Peter Cook's divorce hearings begin in open court tomorrow. The New York Daily News has a detailed round-up of their divorce proceedings thus far. [NY Daily News] read more »
