Diana Spechler
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For instance, after reading Skinny, Gay says that she googled the author to find out whether she were a fat woman. Gay notes that when she found out that the author is thin and seems to have always been thin, she trusted her less. I don't think it's this alone -- the author also seems to believe that her character being 30 pounds overweight constitutes "fat" which I'd argue it doesn't. Gay believes this is because that's fattest the character could be before ceasing to be likable to a broad readership. Sad, if true.
To me, the greater crime is that the author thinks being 30 pounds overweight is some sort of extreme situation. Perhaps this is because she has never been fat, but I think it's likelier that her imagination failed. This to me is the greater novelist's crime. This novel was fine, but it could have been better.… (mehr)