More, Please : On Food, Fat, Bingeing, Longing, and the Lust for Enough by Emma Specter (2024, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherHarperCollins
ISBN-100063278375
ISBN-139780063278370
eBay Product ID (ePID)28061470598
Product Key Features
Number of Pages208 Pages
Publication NameMore, Please : on Food, Fat, Bingeing, Longing, and the Lust for Enough
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2024
SubjectHealth Care Issues, Personal Memoirs, Internal Medicine, Women's Studies
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaHealth & Fitness, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, Medical
AuthorEmma Specter
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight9.9 Oz
Item Length8.2 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2024-391624
Dewey Edition23
Reviews"More, Please is a five-course meal of delight. It is an absolutely delicious read, that never shies away from the truth in favor of some tidy, societally approved narrative. Specter's own honesty forced me to look at my relationship with my body without a filter and held my hand while I did so." -- Kelsey McKinney, co-creator and host of Normal Gossip "Few topics are as viciously knotted together as food, health, weight, pleasure, and the crushing social pressure to be a certain size. Emma Specter slices through all of it, probing our obsession with 'wellness' with a voice that's tender, funny, angry, and sharp as hell. This is an essential book for anyone with a body, anyone with a heart." -- Helen Rosner, James Beard Award-winning food journalist and New Yorker staff writer "Emma Specter's More, Please is a generous coming-of-age and coming-to-self memoir that offers pathos, levity, and depth (in equal measure) to conversations around how complicated a role food can have in our lives." -- Alicia Kennedy, author of No Meat Required "More, Please is fluid, expansive, and frank. Anyone whose relationship with food has ever been fraught (so: everyone) will find something new and sharp in Specter's writing, which has and will continue to help people, despite--or maybe because of--her refreshing refusal to prescribe." -- Katie Heaney, author of Would You Rather? "More, Please maps what it feels like to be caught in constant contradiction: to love and fear food, and to want connection and aloneness at the same time. For those of us who have felt like our bodies are houses where no one was home, this book gave me new glittering and curious inhabitants. I recognized myself here like never before." -- Emma Copley Eisenberg, author of The Third Rainbow Girl "[A] smart first outing...Specter's incisive report will intrigue readers of all sizes." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "In this 'hybrid memoir-in-interviews,' Vogue culture writer Specter blends her own struggles with binge eating and body image with the voices of prominent body-positive writers...to show how representation can be a healing agent. An inspiring personal account of living with an eating disorder and finding joy in a fat body." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review), "More, Please is a five-course meal of delight. It is an absolutely delicious read, that never shies away from the truth in favor of some tidy, societally approved narrative. Specter's own honesty forced me to look at my relationship with my body without a filter and held my hand while I did so." -- Kelsey McKinney, creator and host of Normal Gossip "Emma Specter's More, Please is a generous coming-of-age and coming-to-self memoir that offers pathos, levity, and depth (in equal measure) to conversations around how complicated a role food can have in our lives." -- Alicia Kennedy, author of No Meat Required "More, Please is fluid, expansive, and frank. Anyone whose relationship with food has ever been fraught (so: everyone) will find something new and sharp in Specter's writing, which has and will continue to help people, despite--or maybe because of--her refreshing refusal to prescribe." -- Katie Heaney, author of Would You Rather? "More, Please maps what it feels like to be caught in constant contradiction: to love and fear food, and to want connection and aloneness at the same time. For those of us who have felt like our bodies are houses where no one was home, this book gave me new glittering and curious inhabitants. I recognized myself here like never before." -- Emma Copley Eisenberg, author of The Third Rainbow Girl "In this 'hybrid memoir-in-interviews,' Vogue culture writer Specter blends her own struggles with binge eating and body image with the voices of prominent body-positive writers...to show how representation can be a healing agent. An inspiring personal account of living with an eating disorder and finding joy in a fat body." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review), "Emma Specter's More, Please is a generous coming-of-age and coming-to-self memoir that offers pathos, levity, and depth (in equal measure) to conversations around how complicated a role food can have in our lives." -- Alicia Kennedy, author of No Meat Required "More, Please is fluid, expansive, and frank. Anyone whose relationship with food has ever been fraught (so: everyone) will find something new and sharp in Specter's writing, which has and will continue to help people, despite--or maybe because of--her refreshing refusal to prescribe." -- Katie Heaney, author of Would You Rather? "More, Please maps what it feels like to be caught in constant contradiction: to love and fear food, and to want connection and aloneness at the same time. For those of us who have felt like our bodies are houses where no one was home, this book gave me new glittering and curious inhabitants. I recognized myself here like never before." -- Emma Copley Eisenberg, author of The Third Rainbow Girl "In this 'hybrid memoir-in-interviews,' Vogue culture writer Specter blends her own struggles with binge eating and body image with the voices of prominent body-positive writers...to show how representation can be a healing agent. An inspiring personal account of living with an eating disorder and finding joy in a fat body." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Dewey Decimal616.8526
SynopsisONE OF TIME 100'S MUST-READ BOOKS OF 2024 * A DEBUTIFUL BEST BOOK OF 2024 * FEATURED IN NYLON * W MAGAZINE * GLAMOUR * BOOK RIOT * HEYALMA * BUSTLE * ELECTRIC LITERATURE * ROMPER * AND MORE! "Tender, funny, angry, and sharp as hell. This is an essential book for anyone with a body, anyone with a heart." --Helen Rosner, James Beard Award-winning food journalist and New Yorker staff writer An unflinching and deeply reported look at the realities of binge-eating disorder from a rising culture commentator and writer for Vogue. Millions of us use restrictive diets, intermittent fasting, IV therapies, and Ozempic abuse to shrink until we are sample-size acceptable. But for the 30 million Americans who live with eating disorders, it isn't just about less. More, Please is a chronicle of a lifelong fixation with food--its power to soothe, to comfort, to offer a fleeting escape from the outside world--as well as an examination of the ways in which compulsory thinness, diet culture, and the seductive promise of "wellness" have resulted in warping countless Americans' relationship with healthy eating. Melding memoir, reportage, and in-depth interviews with some of the most prominent and knowledgeable commentators currently writing about food, fatness, and disordered eating--Virginia Sole-Smith, Virgie Tovar, Aiyana Ishmael, Leslie Jamison, and others--Emma Specter explores binge-eating disorder as both a personal problem and a societal one. In More, Please, she provides a context, a history, and a language for what it means to always want more than you'll allow yourself to have., ONE OF TIME 100'S MUST-READ BOOKS OF 2024 - A DEBUTIFUL BEST BOOK OF 2024 - FEATURED IN NYLON - W MAGAZINE - GLAMOUR - BOOK RIOT - HEYALMA - BUSTLE - ELECTRIC LITERATURE - ROMPER - AND MORE! "Tender, funny, angry, and sharp as hell. This is an essential book for anyone with a body, anyone with a heart." --Helen Rosner, James Beard Award-winning food journalist and New Yorker staff writer An unflinching and deeply reported look at the realities of binge-eating disorder from a rising culture commentator and writer for Vogue. Millions of us use restrictive diets, intermittent fasting, IV therapies, and Ozempic abuse to shrink until we are sample-size acceptable. But for the 30 million Americans who live with eating disorders, it isn't just about less. More, Please is a chronicle of a lifelong fixation with food--its power to soothe, to comfort, to offer a fleeting escape from the outside world--as well as an examination of the ways in which compulsory thinness, diet culture, and the seductive promise of "wellness" have resulted in warping countless Americans' relationship with healthy eating. Melding memoir, reportage, and in-depth interviews with some of the most prominent and knowledgeable commentators currently writing about food, fatness, and disordered eating--Virginia Sole-Smith, Virgie Tovar, Aiyana Ishmael, Leslie Jamison, and others--Emma Specter explores binge-eating disorder as both a personal problem and a societal one. In More, Please , she provides a context, a history, and a language for what it means to always want more than you'll allow yourself to have.
LC Classification NumberRC552.C65S6 2024
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