anonymous no more

I have been reading the Blog "Anonymous Lawyer" for some time now, and even though it is obnoxiously antithetical to so many of my values, I, like many other readers, just kept coming back for more. Although I always new the fictional stories from life of a hiring partner at a large firm were just that, fictional, I guess I assumed that they were simply exagerations of a real hiring partner. The blog does have that simultanious "this can't be real" / "this is how it must be" feeling of one who knows the life intimatly, but recently the author has been outed, and it turns out it is a law student. He is a 3L at Harvard and he doesn't want to be a lawyer. He wants to be a writer. An artist peeking into the law and reflecting its flaws. It will be interesting to see what happens to the blog now that he has been outed in the New York times.