Susan Burton, EMPTY

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 24 June 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Susan Burton's memoir, Empty, is one of my favorite recent books. I'm really excited to share our conversation which we had at the beginning of the pandemic. Now it feels like a lifetime ago! Susan is an editor at This American Life on where the episodes she has produced include "Ten Sessions," "Five Women," and "Tell Me I'm Fat.” Her writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Slate, The New Yorker, and others. Empty is the story of Susan’s secret eating disorders, both anorexia and binge eating disorder, that defined her adolescence and adulthood. We talked about her book becoming both a confession about the painful secrets she had been living with and sharing her story as a means of recovery and connection. Our interview was the first one she had done and she meaningfully shed light on habits and compulsions, how we hide our turmoil, and the road to sharing ourselves with the people closest to us.

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0:12.1	Moms don't have time to read books. Thanks so much for listening to my podcast. If you like what you hear,
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1:23.1	I interviewed Susan Burton all the way at the beginning of the pandemic, and I think it was her first interview.
1:29.1	And I met her a while back at an event I went to, actually, then I was moderating at the Center for Fiction, and I'm thrilled that now it's finally time that I can release her episode.
1:39.1	Susan Burton's memoir empty is really one of my favorite recent books, so I'm really excited to bring it to all of you.
1:45.9	She's an editor at This American Life, where the episodes she's produced include 10 sessions, 5 women, and Tell Me I'm Fat.
1:53.1	Her writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Slate, The New Yorker, and others.
1:57.1	And she's a former editor of Harper's.
1:58.8	Her radio documentaries have won numerous awards, including an overseas press club citation, and she received a former editor of Harper's. Her radio documentaries have won numerous awards,
2:01.5	including an overseas press club citation,
2:03.9	and she received a grant from the corporation from public broadcasting
2:06.8	to do stories about teenagers.
2:08.8	The film Unaccompanied Miners,
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