“I definitely tried to write with honesty about the Yale experience and with honesty about secret societies,” Peterfreund said, although she admitted that in some scenes she might have “sexed it up a little bit.” Seeing the movie again, Peterfreund said, inspired her to start a novel about the real-life experience of a student in a secret society, despite Peterson’s concern that a book about societies stripped of the cloak-and-dagger conspiracy theories would just be boring. Peterfreund said she and her college friends had always been amused by the movie’s dramatized depiction of the real-life Skull and Bones, and used to play a game that involved taking a drink whenever the movie got something wrong about Yale or societies. In fact, Peterfreund said “Secret Society Girl” started when she and fiance Daniel Peterson ’02 were packing up their apartment in Florida to move to Washington, D.C. Several said the premise reminded them of the 2000 movie “The Skulls”. The books - set in a parallel-universe New Haven where students have drink nights at Tory’s and choose between the many Thai restaurants on Chapel Street - have received favorable reviews in publications like “The New York Observer” and “Booklist,” although Kirkus Reviews panned “Secret Society Girl” for “banal dialogue and a wimpy heroine.” Few Yalies said they had heard anything about the novels, which are being translated into Russian, Portuguese and Chinese, and most said the idea of a series of books about societies sounded silly, uninteresting or both. Peterfreund said she strove to faithfully represent the Yale experience in the “Secret Society Girl” books, which are centered around narrator Amy Haskel’s induction into a secret society called Rose and Grave. Peterfreund is the author of “Secret Society Girl,” published in 2006, and its sequel “Under the Rose” - both subtitled “An Ivy League Novel,” to drive home the point - which are the first two volumes of a projected four-book series. If Eli University sounds a lot like Yale, then Diana Peterfreund ’01 has done her job well.
You’ll need your energy for the Saturday Night Dance Party at Froggie’s later.
Instead, you head down the street to Lenny’s Lunch, where you order a hamburger - no ketchup, of course - and a bag of chips.
Normally you’d eat dinner at the Calvin College dining hall, but it’s already closed, and let’s be honest, the food is kind of gross anyway.
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