Not just eating disorders, but mental health in general, I think, is probably the last frontier of empathy in our culture. I’m not a journalist, I’m not a scientist, and I’m not a health care worker, but I am somebody who has been through this before and I’m also a writer. I think with that I can probably do something useful.
Sarah Gerard talks with Electric Literature about her new novel Binary Star, writing anorexia in a new way, and the problems with America’s perception of food and bodies.
