Elizabeth Wurtzel and the Feminist Disability Memoir

IF YOU WERE a depressed young woman in the 1990s, Elizabeth Wurtzel’s memoir Prozac Nation (1994) was required reading. I remember standing in a New Jersey Barnes & Noble, tenderly taking the book from the shelf, and turning it over in my hands. Who was this woman on the cover? She looked so cool, her […] The post Elizabeth Wurtzel and the Feminist Disability Memoir appeared first on Los Angeles Review of Books. Continue reading at 'Los Angeles Review of Books'

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