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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.
Emmeline Clein
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Emmeline Clein
@emmelclein
- wrote about s*lly r**ney, wittgenstein, games, girls, age gaps, gone girl & even goodreads
- 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
- 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 😭
- 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)
- 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 - 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.” nylon.com/life/dead-weig… - 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: penguinrandomhouse.com/books/722655/d…
00:00 - really lived laughed loved w @elizamclamb & @binchcity …listen to us bravely address myfitnesspal, gabriette, halo top & the trolley problem
- 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." buzzfeednews.com/article/emmeli…
- 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
- 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…
- 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
