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How did you prepare yourself emotionally to tell such a personal story so publicly?
Photo: Phoebe Jones
Being thin isnt as important as she thought, so she can finally recover!
Sometimes you should probably hear that!
What do you think it would take for the literary world (or maybe just…the world?)
to take disordered eating seriously?
I mean, I guess Im about to find out!
Its much more of a sociopolitical history and cultural-criticism project and a kind of choral narrative.
Are there other books or works of art around disordered eating that you feel made space for your own?
Theres one book calledAppetitesby Caroline Knapp.
In terms of my sort of meta-textual ethos, I definitely was influenced a lot byKate ZambrenosHeroines.
Anne BoyersThe Undyingwas incredibly important to me; I feel like she did an entire reinvention of a genre.
This conversation has been edited and condensed.
Dead Weight: Essays on Hunger and Harm
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