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Emma Copley Eisenberg is the creator of a brand new assortment of quick tales titled “Fats Swim.” Her work questions physique picture and the suppression of fatness in modern tradition; Eisenberg just lately paid for a billboard over a busy freeway in Philadelphia bearing the slogan “Your intestine is a horrible factor to lose.” Eisenberg talked with The New Yorker’s Jennifer Wilson about utilizing fiction to discover physique picture, and the fatphobia that she finds in literature by a few of as we speak’s acclaimed writers.
Additional studying:
- “Fats Swim,” by Emma Copley Eisenberg
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