Title: Going hungry : writers on desire, self-denial, and overcoming anorexia /
Authors: Taylor, Kate.
Publisher: Anchor Books,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Anorexia nervosa.
Abstract: Nineteen writers describe their eating disorders from the distance of recovery, exposing as never before the anorexic's self-enclosed world.
Contents: Introduction / Kate Taylor -- Hunger striking / Maura Kelly -- To poison an ideal / Ilana Kurshan -- Daughters of the diet revolution / Jennifer Egan -- On thin ice / Francine du Plessix Gray -- Hungry men / John Nolan -- Black-and-white thinking / Latria Graham -- Education of the poet / Louise Glück -- Big little / Priscilla Becker -- The ghost of Gordolfo Gelatino / Rudy Ruiz -- Earthly imprefections / Lisa Halliday -- Little fish in a big sea / Sarah Haight -- How the faeries caught me / Francesca Lia Block -- The voice / Trisha Gura -- Finding home / Maya Browne -- Shape-shifting / Amanda Fortini -- Earning life / Clara Elliott -- Modeling school / Elizabeth Kadetsky -- Thirty years later, still watching the scale / Joyce Maynard.