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"We're Not Crazy": Emmeline Clein, in Conversation With Cat Marnell

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“Girls with eating disorders are perhaps the smartest girls around, they literally read between the lines of what everyone’s constantly telling them,” says the author Emmeline Clein, whose debut essay collection Dead Weight: Essays On Hunger And Harm, hits bookshelves today. “And unfortunately, that lesson is one that’s not going to allow us to be healthy or reach our full potential, so we need to unlearn it together.” Dead Weight offers a personal and unconventional look at disordered eating, a mental illness which kills almost as many people as opioid abuse. But that’s rarely afforded any real attention in our healthcare system or by our larger cultural establishment. In her debut, Clein privileges the voices of women associated with eating disorders, the writings of Simone Weil, catholic saints, the saints of the 2000s Tumblrverse, and even Mischa Barton, making for a vital entry into the regrettably slim canon of ED literature. Before the book’s publication, Clein sat down with the

LIT “We’re Not Crazy”: Emmeline Clein, in Conversation With Cat Marnell By Cat Marnell Photographed by Phoebe Jones February 27, 2024 Emmeline Clein, photographed by Phoebe Jones. “Girls with eating disorders are perhaps the smartest girls around, they literally read between the lines of what everyone’s constantly telling them,” says the author Emmeline Clein , whose debut essay collection Dead Weight: Essays On Hunger And Harm , hits bookshelves today. “And unfortunately, that lesson is one that’s not going to allow us to be healthy or reach our full potential, s

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