At night, she pedals nowhere on the elliptical machine. By day, she maintains an illusion of existential control, by way of obsessive food rituals, while working as an underling at a Los Angeles talent management agency. Rachel is twenty-four, a lapsed Jew who has made calorie restriction her religion. She lives in Los Angeles.Named a Best Book of the Year by Entertainment Weekly, Vogue, Time, Esquire, BookPage, and moreĪ Most-Anticipated Selection by Vogue * Refinery29 * Vulture * BuzzFeed * Harper’s Bazaar * O, The Oprah Magazine * The Millions * Literary Hub * The Rumpus * Publishers Weekly and moreĪ scathingly funny, wildly erotic, and fiercely imaginative story about food, sex, and god from the acclaimed author of The Pisces and So Sad Today.
She has written for The New York Times,, VICE, Vogue Italia, and New York magazine’s “The Cut.” Her poems have appeared in POETRY, The Iowa Review, Tin House, and Guernica, and she is the winner of a Pushcart Prize for poetry. Melissa Broder is the author of the novel The Pisces, the essay collection So Sad Today and four poetry collections, including Last Sext. To listen to the rest of the episode, as well as the whole archive of Otherppl with Brad Listi, subscribe and listen on iTunes or wherever else you find your favorite podcasts. It’s more of an exploratory gathering and trying different fingers that point me to the moon. And I think that I’m still a seeker, but it’s not really a frantic quest to fix something broken.
And I thought that spirituality was-I really imagined it as like, I’m on a lotus and I’m over here and I feel like I’m on some good heroiny ecstasy, and I can’t be hurt. I want to fix this broken thing, which is my self. And I was like, any psychic or any astrologer knows more than I do. And I think in my twenties, I was definitely a big finger-clinger I was sort of frantically searching outside myself for this wholeness. Melissa Broder: There’s another quote-I don’t know who said this-but it’s basically saying, all the rabbis and the mystics and the priests are all pointing their finger at the same moon, but we want to cling to the finger. Her new book, Milk Fed, is out now from Scribner.
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