“Fats Swim” and Literature’s Fatphobia Downside

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Emma Copley Eisenberg is the creator of a brand new assortment of brief tales titled “Fat Swim.” Her work questions physique picture and the suppression of fatness in up to date 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 right this moment’s acclaimed writers.

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• “Fat Swim,” by Emma Copley Eisenberg

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