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Article: The big reader: two editors size up literature's heavy hitters.(Special Project)(What Are You Looking At? The First Fat Fiction Anthology)(Review)(Book Review)(Brief Article)
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ACCORDING TO PLUS-SIZE EDITORS DONNA JARRELL and Ira Sukrungruang, the book they recently finished putting together is an undertaking long overdue. Titled What Are You Looking At? The First Fat Fiction Anthology, it is a compilation of thirty short stories that examine the overweight experience through the lens of literature--and, in Sukrungruang's words, "go beyond societal expectations to show that fat has more than one dimension."
The stories are by turns compassionate, angry, funny and sensuous. There is the lonely young woman in the late Andre Dubus' "The Fat Girl" who finds that her identity seems to shrink as her waistband does, and there's the heavyset ...
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Article: PAPERBACKS; Women between the lines.(ENTERTAINMENT)
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);
November 2, 2003 ;
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... ... subjects of 30 stories and poems by some of our best contemporary writers in "What Are You Looking At? The First Fat Fiction Anthology" (Harvest Original, $14) It's not just women who eat here, but men, too, and their stories are told ...
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