Fatphobia is the literary world's final frontier

It's still chill, in every corner of the book landscape, to hate fat people.

This title and subtitle is a fairly big claim. Is it really that bad out there, in books, for fat people? you ask. Hasn’t representation and treatment of fat people in literature and in the literary ecosystem gotten better in the last few years? Plus, maybe you’re not fat, so why should you care?

My short answers are these: yes, it really is that bad, ev…