Fatphobia in fiction: part 2

In which I answer real questions about the quagmire of writing fatness & body size

I want to start this letter by acknowledging that any work and thinking I’m doing these days is happening within the context that we are witnessing a genocide in Palestine and we need a ceasefire now. I am a Jew and to say this is not antisemitic. The tide is turning; let’s go.

Back in July, I wrote about how fatphobia is the literary world’s final fron…