The New Yorker

“Fat Swim” and Literature’s Fatphobia Problem (opens in new tab)

The novelist Emma Copley Eisenberg discusses her short-story collection “Fat Swim,” and the fatphobia she finds in contemporary fiction, with the critic Jennifer Wilson.

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