New book Fat Swim explores the pain and pleasure of having a body
‘I consider myself a fat activist, but my fiction is not activism – it is art’: Emma Copley Eisenberg on her hotly anticipated new story collection, fatphobia, and the pain and pleasure of having a body
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More often than I’d like, I’ll spend a day hunched over my laptop, ignoring my aching back or my neck, making little Rice Krispies noises when I turn it. I’ll eat standing instead of sitting. I’ll spend hours and hours tuned into a series of smaller and bigger screens instead of my senses. And then, something will happen. I’ll remember I can go for a walk. As I flex my legs and my arms in the sun, and feel a breeze, and see magnolia blossoms and dog shit and row homes and Squid Factshellip;
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