Some topics aren't suitable for literature

And dieting is one of them

May 16, 2024

∙ Paid

My modus with this blog is to start with my current preoccupations (friendship, envy, motherhood, literary careers, etc) and draw on my Great Books reading and historical knowledge to provide some context for my troubles—do my current worries call to mind anything from Plato? Thucydides? Confucius? Proust?

But for the last six months this has proven ver…

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