The myths we embrace and the tales that we spin fascinate me. The first three essay categories are on body image and culture issues. Some of these pieces originally appeared in magazines such as Radiance, the Magazine for Larger Women, and FAT!SO?, Marilyn Wann's zine. The Short Takes are shorter essays that just demanded to be written. If they make you laugh, great! If not, well, risk-taking goes with the territory.

Book Reviews
TV/Film Reviews
Size Acceptance
Short Takes

Book Reviews

• Sleuths of Size, Past and Present
• A similar article on authors currently featuring women sleuths of size was published in the Summer 99 (Swimsuit Edition) of RADIANCE, The Magazine for Larger Women
• Two Reviews—Fantasy, Eroticism, and the Minefield of Language and Desire
• Generous Visions: Fantasy Views the Big Picture in Such a Pretty Face
• A review of The Woman's Belly Book: Finding Your Treasure Within by Lisa Sarasohn
• A review of The Obesity Myth by Paul Campos
• A review of Body Wars by Margo Maine, Ph.D.
• A review of Venus of Chalk by Susan Stimson
• Antidotes to the anorexic vampire: A review of Andrew Fox's Fat White Vampire Blues and Bride of the Fat White Vampire
• Recent Fat Fiction
• First Person Fat: Recent Memoirs and Guides
• A review of Fat Politics: The Real Story Behind America's Obesity Epidemic by J. Eric Oliver

TV/Movie Reviews, Profiles, Interviews

• An interview with Darlene Cates—star of What's Eating Gilbert Grape
• Amazons and Waifs: Fat and Thin in the Art of David E. Kelley
• Mimi Bobeck on the Drew Carey Show: The Boss's Secretary from Hell and an Unexpected Action Figure
• Wayne Knight: the Fat Man as Anti-Hero or Mild-mannered Everyman?
• A review of The Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
• The Tao of Steve and the Yin and Yang of Sex and Self-Acceptance
• Actors in Fat Suits and An Epidemic of Prejudice Against Fat People
• Spin-Dr. Phil vs. Fat Acceptance
• Dr. Phil, The Seven Sutherland Sisters Hair Grower and the New Snake Oil Sales Game
• My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiancé: The Agony of Social Embarrassment, the Ecstasy of a Million Dollars
• Life in the Yo Yo Lane: Kirstie Alley's "Fat Actress" Show on Showtime
• The Further Adventures of Actors in Fat Suits: Tyra Banks, Vanessa Minnello and Ryan Reynolds

Size Acceptance

• Big Bad Words
• Green Onions, Yellow Onions, Self-Esteem and Murder
• Where Are All the Fat People?
• The Forbidden Subject of Fat: a View from the Tabloids
• A Letter to Southwest Airlines
• The State of the F-Word: Three Letters That Still Shock
• The Care and Feeding of Your New Obesity Epidemic

Short Takes

• My Pet Alligator
• Bambi Meets The Aristocrats
• Women Who Love Police Dachshunds Too Much

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