Emmeline Clein
@emmelclein
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hysterical girl writing, ranting & musing in @thenation @parisreview @yalereview @nytmag etc DEAD WEIGHT @aaknopf & @picadorbooks
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dead weight is out today—to anyone struggling, to the girls who saved me & continue to do so every day, this book is for you. i know it hurts, and i hope this helps.
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Ottessa Moshfegh told me vanity is still the enemy but that does not mean one has to look like shit, amid other pearls of wisdom re sobriety, smoking & fate…up now
@InterviewMag
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cannot wait to write the book i’ve been dreaming of writing for years…endless thanks to
@booksijustread
@vrhaughton
@_triangle_house
@AAKnopf
for believing in this project 😭
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thanks for calling me canny & persuasive
@NewYorker
(also for being the first publication to notice that my book is as much about simone weil as mischa barton)
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can confirm…have never lived laughed or loved so hard at a literary event…tragically had no choice but to read my ninth grade op ed against careerism at my prep school (couldn’t find my journal entries about walking in a zig zag pattern to avoid the dc sniper)
over the weekend i hosted a reading where writers were only allowed to read things they’d written between 6th and 12th grade. not to brag but like 100 people showed up and it was 14000 times more fun than basically every other “literary event” i’ve ever been to
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was lucky enough to talk to the internet’s princess
@raynefq
about the sick, sad girl trope, the cognitive dissonance inherent to recovery in a world that wants you sick, sad and small, solidarity, friendship & how fabulously life-affirming a conversation w another girl can be…
.
@emmelclein
&
@raynefq
want you to deconstruct the Western beauty standard.
Below,
@sophianjune
caught up with the two writers on community, liberation, and “respect for sick and sad young women.”
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DEAD WEIGHT is out in February, featuring Blair Waldorf, Simone Weil, America’s Next Top Model, American healthcare, Karen Carpenter, Kirsten Dunst, rehab, Reaganomics, Jenny Hval, missed signals, missed symptoms, missed periods & my whole soul
🖤 Coming 2.27.24 🖤
@emmelclein
's DEAD WEIGHT is an absolute must read—a personal and cultural look at the dark underbelly of Western beauty standards and the lethal culture of disordered eating they’ve wrought.
📖 Learn more:
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been feeling very conflicted about a certain kind of aspirationally dead inside feminism lately, so I wrote about it for
@BuzzFeedNews
"We now seem to be interiorizing our existential aches and angst, smirking knowingly at them, and numbing ourselves to maintain our nonchalance. Let’s call it dissociation feminism."
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wrote a literary cookbook gift guide...read on for truffles the color of sin, a rolls-royce filled with cauliflower, lucian freud's tomato soup, a cocktail combining guinness w champagne, a princess' salad for poets w delicate digestion &100s of cigarettes
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an excerpt of dead weight is up
@thenation
today! one of my favorite chapters, on reaganomics, girlbossery, buccal fat, big pharma, bailouts & even ozempic…
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an excerpt from dead weight is out in
@lithub
today—me on susan sontag, gossip girl, jean rhys, memoirs misread as manuals, daydreaming about death during pilates & more…
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loved talking to legend
@cat_marnell
about Dead Weight (which is out TODAY), sad girl book covers, Mischa Barton, being called crazy & much more, up now
@InterviewMag
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my book dead weight is available for preorder…
probably the closest we’ll ever get to an idea of universal girlhood is experiencing some form of an eating disorder but that’s not very marketable is it
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wrote about Wellbutrin, eating disorders, big pharma, online thinspo, and my & many others’ experiences with all of the above for
@VICE
massive massive thanks to everyone who spoke to me for this❤️
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dead weight is one of the top ten books
@Oprah
wants to read next year...honored to be on this list alongside incredible writers like
@lsjamison
@kileyreid
@thommyorange
@rachelkhong
Percival Everett & many more
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loved talking to
@EmmaSpecter
about my book & bodies & being in pain, up now
@voguemagazine
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feel free to make herstory by giving me one too
@Guggenheim
Keep mixing up Emma Cline and Emmaline Cline so I briefly thought that the woman who wrote this really good book on eating disorders had won a Guggenheim.
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bravely coming out in favor of vocal fry and against color coded bookshelves among other strong opinions…thank you for having me
@dreambabypress
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thanks for bravely recognizing dead weight as a brat summer beach read
@AirMailWeekly
(& for calling my book spectacular🥹)
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overwhelmed by having a cover AND a preorder link for my book!! smash that purchase button if you've been wondering why you hate yourself...& if you already know why, do it for marissa cooper, big pharma malfeasance, megan fox, medieval anorexics, etc.
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hono(u)red & thrilled that Dead Weight will be published in the UK by
@picadorbooks
this April, pre-order your new favo(u)rite book please
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“If the bimbo projects mindlessness, she protects that most treasured part of her body, which is the brain. The brain hides in plain sight. It is freedom from not just surveillance but..scrutiny”
@saderotica
on bimbofication as serenity process
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“Dead Weight seems destined to fundamentally reshape how we think and write about the subject of eating disorders.” tysm
@NYMag
for putting me on a list
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wrote about a gay love triangle in greece (the fabulous novel Antiquity) for this…print only xo
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wrote about Eileen, Ottessa, beauty, brunettes, abandonment, breakdowns & love for
@lithub
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thank you
@ELLEmagazine
for understanding dead weight so deeply—adored talking to
@laurpuckett
about the canon of disordered eating literature, capitalism, community, irony, illness and so much more
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the only prose that has made me tear up faster than this tweet of late is Leslie’s memoir Splinters ❤️
Three and a half years ago in thesis workshop I got to teach these two insanely talented women—now I get to watch the world lose its mind at their brilliance 🫀🔥❤️🔥
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i might be talking about dead weight with a beautiful genius in a city near you soon! come hang with me &
@catccohen
@elizamclamb
@eliza5cool
@lsjamison
@CCooperJones
@tourmaliiine
& more
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i had parallel experiences discovering Saint Catherine & Simone Weil…both are recounted in dead weight, which comes out tomorrow 🖤
suddenly remembered i first came across kafka because of girls on pro-ana livejournal sharing the story "a hunger artist" about a person who starves as their profession.... do you think he imagined he would reach such heights?
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“Dead Weight removes the onus from those suffering with eating disorders by offering a path to recovery via a meticulously-documented case against the powers that be” tysm
@clereviewbooks
@emmagigabytes
for understanding my book
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attempted to predict the future of essays for
@dirtyverse
&
@_triangle_house
a few months ago, most fun i’ve had writing in a minute
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instead of buying a one size fits all tube top from brandy melville preorder dead weight, also a beautiful tube top
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was an honor & thrill to edit these fabulous writers as they investigated a national icon, martyr, mystery, and myth: the american bimbo ❤️ come for lindsay and paris, stay for perez, taylor momsen, tumblr, girls gone wild, lipstick lesbians & more…
🚨 NEW CLUSTER // OUT NOW 🚨
🇺🇸💄 AMERICAN BIMBO 💄🇺🇸
ed. Emmeline Clein
@emmelclein
feat.
Rax King
@RaxKingIsDead
Elena Comay del Junco
@ecdelj
Rob Franklin
@robfrank__
Lynn Melnick
Elle Nash
@saderotica
Nora Rose Tomas
@DrSappho
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evangelized about hanging out, gossipy prose, teen tv shows, reading out of print books, and eating shellfish in
@thecreativeindp
(& also mentioned my book) <3 all my thanks to
@formermissNJ
for an amazing convo
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a man writing about didion like this in the LRB in 2022...amazing to know that you can die one of the greatest writers to ever do it to em and essays ostensibly about your final book will read like pro ana prose poems
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made some predictions about prose alongside many writers I admire for
@dirtyverse
&
@_triangle_house
Today's
@dirtyverse
is a collab with
@_triangle_house
on the Future of Essay ft. Kate Zambreno,
@tianareid
,
@magdajtaylor
,
@emmelclein
and
@elissawashuta
🧩
Art by
@totalclownbaby
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Wrote about Britney, Paris, Pamela, paparazzi, penance, the new york post & my favorite website pop culture died in 2009
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one of my favorite conversations about dead weight is up now
@BOMBmagazine
—i hope you’ll read. Allie & I talk girlhood, today’s frankenstasia of a beauty ideal, media hypocrisy, syringes, survival, nicole richie’s memorial day bbq, and much more
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Dead Weight is out in the uk today with
@picadorbooks
please do me a favo(u)r and read it while drinking a flat white
Dead Weight by Emmeline Clein
Find out more about Dead Weight by Emmeline Clein
www.panmacmillan.com
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“If you waste your time in the right way for 14 years, you might end up with a book at the end.”
It was very cool to talk to one of the very best, Sheila Heti, about her new book “Alphabetical Diaries,” out today.
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“It was, intellectually and politically, a dark time: 2005…Crusaders for sexual morality never can seem to help veering into lurid fantasy, as titillating as it is terrifying.”
@ecdelj
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deeply shook & grateful that this is already sold out! email events
@mcnallyjackson
for more tickets as they become avail & NYC friends/lovers/enemies you can come see me read at Outline Brooklyn on 3/21 more info to come…
my book is out in eleven days & in thirteen i’ll be taking about it with Cat Cohen at McNally Jackson ❤️🔥 register here:
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“Lewis’s sex scenes are crucifixions, her depictions of syringes slipping into veins are resurrections, her bruised embraces are seances. The narrator is a holy ghost. Seen too much, gone too soon.” honored to write about Notice
@LAReviewofBooks
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my book is out in eleven days & in thirteen i’ll be taking about it with Cat Cohen at McNally Jackson ❤️🔥 register here:
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this one’s for the girls: wrote about filler & feminism…on aesthetica by
@allierowbottom
for
@clereviewbooks
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genuinely SHOCKED to report that sally waited 114 pages to mention her protagonist’s “hard fin of a hipbone”!!!!!
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sad girls, bad reviews, worse boyfriends, multiple courtneys, confessional writing, confessional booths, Tumblr tags…wrote something for
@hobartpulp
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Wrote about some very depressing stats on housing inequality in the US, the inspiring movement for housing justice, and how anyone can get involved in the fight for affordable housing
@thenation
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baby's first editor's letter! truly an honor to work with all the ingenious icons who trusted me with their words in this issue <3
THR Issue 32 is LIVE!! Our theme is the "Self" in its many forms. Starting with a letter from the editor, written by
@emmelclein
, Issue 32 promises to be our best one yet.
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Kate Zambreno's Heroines is reissued today by
@SemiotextePress
(feat. a bracingly beautiful intro by
@veryhotmomm
)––I spoke to Kate for the next issue of
@_triangle_house
review & this is how ai transcription tech spelled annie earnaux and dodie bellamy...heroines 4ever <3
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dead weight is a best book of feb according to
@TIME
— honored to share this space w geniuses
@lsjamison
& sheila heti & many more
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barre instructor just played lollipop, formation, and the Miley Cyrus black mirror song and then called us a “barre army.” Wearing camo workout separates...
@jiatolentino
pls write a follow up to ur barre essay about barre playlists
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finally bravely addressed the puritan roots of hot girl ibs & even said the word gw*n*th aloud
"Because this issue has been overlooked from a political and cultural and intellectual standpoint, partially because of its association with girls, I wanted to give it a really serious treatment."
@emmagigabytes
interviews
@emmelclein
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on my knees begging taylor swift to come to my house and cancel me to my face
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this is tonight! politics and prose was my favorite bookstore as a teenager, so this one is special. see you at p&p @ the wharf tonight dc
Tomorrow, join
@emmelclein
to discuss DEAD WEIGHT - a personal and cultural look at the dark underbelly of Western beauty standards and the lethal culture of disordered eating they've wrought - with Judith Warner - 7PM @ P&P The Wharf -
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the
@nytimes
continues to courageously acknowledge the existence of books by brunettes w the initials ec,
@eliza5cool
wrote an utterly unique, engrossing novel that is in fact out now
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have the absolute honor of talking dead weight with
@tourmaliiine
tomorrow! RSVP here if you’re in miami
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nyc friends/lovers/enemies who missed me at mcnally, come listen to me talk next week in Brooklyn with the brilliant Jordan Kisner, there will also be cocktails
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had an utterly great night talking about dead weight where it belongs (next to tabis & with
@c_l_s_b
)
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hot girls & dead weight…perfect bedfellows
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purchased a girl, interrupted coloring book as part of my research for this review…read me on mental hospital girls, capitalism, diagnostic silos, genre strictures etc
@LAReviewofBooks
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“When I get dressed, I become a philosopher-king—not in the sense of presiding over utopia, but in the sense of trying to marry politics and intellect in the perfect imitation of God.” ingenious
@isabeldcris
at it again
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“Dead Weight is a memoir; a cultural critique of the “skinny, sexy sad girl” media of the 00s; an anti-capitalist polemic, and a history of fatphobia and its relation to white supremacy. It’s a remarkable book.” tysm
@jamesdgreig
@Dazed
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“sweeping and incisive, Clein’s book positions eating disorders within histories of capitalism, technology, popular culture, and social media. The story she spins hasn’t simply stuck in my mind; it’s caused a reconsideration of language” grateful this am🥹
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thank you
@hannahpasternak
for talking capitalism, beauty standards & all things dead weight with me (& for saying my book’s “revelations completely reframe what you thought you knew about disordered eating” <3) up now
@SELFmagazine
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"By the end of the book, you’ll be left with a better understanding of how society at large failed you—and not the other way around" thank you
@hannahpasternak
&
@SELFmagazine
for making Dead Weight your March book club read🧡
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talked to Kate Zambreno about madness, memoir, hags, heroines, humor & much more...also this is what the AI transcription service thought our books are called
@emmelclein
@robfrank__
@bryanwoods
@HelloMattStarr
@nazhongwriting
@lexicola
And lastly, an interview with
@emmelclein
and Kate Zambreno, in which two brilliant people have a conversation on the self as a communal being, on acts of service, and so much more.
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.
@tajjaisen
let me write about Marilyn Monroe, Kim K, Clara Bow, Edie Sedgwick, SKIMS, crash diets & Carl's Jr collabing on insidious It Girl iconography... what more could a girl ask for
"Our culture inculcates us with the belief that the less physical space we take up, the more space we’ll be given on a cultural stage."
@emmelclein
on the enduring myth of the It Girl:
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“An assiduously researched and urgent debut book, Dead Weight is both a collective memoir of girlhood and a blistering take on the need to abolish the Western beauty standards that actively promote self-harm” tysm
@sophianjune
@NylonMag
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“The smug equilibrium I’d known thanks to Lindsay Lohan’s downfall was shot, leaving behind only the woozy realization that she’s beaten me to the punch yet again.”
@RaxKingIsDead
on Lindsay and addiction, feat 1 hunter biden mention
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i wrote about bulimia, divorce, lip fillers, demi, diana, lindsay, lil miquela, neoliberalism & wanting a body like an iphone for
@MajusculeLit
endless thanks to
@MikeLindgren
for edits and
@amywilson
for the gorgeous illustration
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been thinking about Pamela Moore for years,
@lithub
let me write about her & the depressed party girl to forgotten female writer pipeline….
Emmeline Clein (
@emmelclein
) on Pamela Moore, and the American tradition of fetishizing women writers, then forgetting them.
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Zambreno! Minot! Michaelson! Lemebel trans. Parks! thrilled & honored to publish their prose in
@costofpaper
And
@costofpaper
is thus live; an absolute honor to have Kate Zambreno amongst our first contributors!
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My mom wrote this book 💕 and she was very moved by the screenshot I sent her of this tweet
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love to bring beautiful women together especially within 100 yards of both wegmans & raising canes
At Astor Place on the downtown 6 I was stopped by a beautiful woman wearing Chanel espadrilles to commiserate about the brevity of
@emmelclein
's Dead Weight, in that short interaction I only had time to agree and add 'she's brilliant'.
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getting emo about getting to get emo in public tonight with one of my best friends
@eliza5cool
and the most iconic mentor around
@lsjamison
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final girls, fatphobia, bullies, bodies, boys & kourtney kardashian’s wellness line…me on Unshrinking by Kate Manne in
@LAReviewofBooks
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if i were you i’d trust the wise woman who taught me that women can have it all, but only while in pain & getting a boyfriend will solve all your problems, but for a mere 6 months…
"I’m obsessed with your new book. It’s going to actually change lives and everyone’s going to be addicted to it."--Cat Cohen on
@emmelclein
's DEAD WEIGHT! Read Emmeline's interview with Cat Cohen for
@InterviewMag
here!
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just had a flashback to the dude who saw me buying emrata’s book and a collection of elizabeth hardwicke essays and asked me why i didn’t just split the difference and buy an eve babitz……………
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"We are left to conclude that it is Louis himself who’s been imprisoned, sentenced to retread his miraculous story over and over again by a literary establishment whose eager embrace belies its own obsession with specious notions of meritocracy" read
@jhnevins
flame edouard louis
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Cops with zip ties on their belts waiting for curfew to hit at a peaceful protest in brooklyn.... disgusting. ABOLISH NYPD
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read eliza’s insights into girlhood & creativity if you know what’s good for you…and if you’re in LA come listen to us talk about all of the above + my book, our bodies & more tomorrow night
@skylightbooks
@ 7
Wrote about the girlhood essayists and the value of derivative art
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