Emma Specter

Vogue culture writer and author of reported memoir More, Please: On Food, Fat, Bingeing, Longing and the Lust for 'Enough'

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About Emma Specter

ABOUT

Emma Specter (she/they) is a Vogue culture writer and consummate New Yorker in Los Angeles whose debut reported memoir, More Please: On Food, Fat, Bingeing, Longing and the Lust for 'Enough', is out now from HarperCollins. When she's not writing, she enjoys walking the Silver Lake Reservoir with a little beverage, trawling estate sales for unnecessary purses, and continuing her hubristic quest to bake the best bagel L.A. has ever seen.

WORK

Emma has written about everything from BMI as a measure of health to a Vogue cover profile of Emma Corrin to long-distance queer love to Marge Simpson's pink Chanel suit to the Hailey Bieber Erewhon smoothie to queer and trans family-making to the state of plus-size vintage fashion in L.A. for publications including LAist, Bon Appetit, them, the Hollywood Reporter and Vice; they are currently the Culture Writer for Vogue.com and serve as a shop steward with the Condé United union.

About Emma Specter

'MORE, PLEASE' REVIEWS

"More, Please is a five-course meal of delight. It is an absolutely delicious read, that never shies away from the truth in favor of some tidy, societally approved narrative. Specter’s own honesty forced me to look at my relationship with my body without a filter and held my hand while I did so." — Kelsey McKinney, co-creator and host of

"Few topics are as viciously knotted together as food, health, weight, pleasure, and the crushing social pressure to be a certain size. Emma Specter slices through all of it, probing our obsession with 'wellness' with a voice that’s tender, funny, angry, and sharp as hell. This is an essential book for anyone with a body, anyone with a heart." — Helen Rosner, James Beard Award-winning food journalist and New Yorker staff writer

“Moving, intelligent, transparent, and companionable, Emma Specter’s More, Please more than earns its place among our literatures of bodies, of self, of queerness, of freedom.” — Sarah Thankam Mathews, author of All This Could Be Different

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'MORE, PLEASE' REVIEWS

"Emma Specter's More, Please is a generous coming-of-age and coming-to-self memoir that offers pathos, levity, and depth (in equal measure) to conversations around how complicated a role food can have in our lives." — Alicia Kennedy, author of No Meat Required

"More, Please is fluid, expansive, and frank. Anyone whose relationship with foo

"More, Please is fluid, expansive, and frank. Anyone whose relationship with food has ever been fraught (so: everyone) will find something new and sharp in Specter's writing, which has and will continue to help people, despite—or maybe because of—her refreshing refusal to prescribe." — Katie Heaney, author of Would You Rather?

"More, Please maps what it feels like to be caught in constant contradiction: to love and fear food, and to want connection and aloneness at the same time. For those of us who have felt like our bodies are houses where no one was home, this book gave me new glittering and curious inhabitants. I recognized myself here like never before." — Emma Copley Eisenberg, author of The Third Rainbow Girl

"[A] smart first outing...Specter’s incisive report will intrigue readers of all sizes." — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"In this 'hybrid memoir-in-interviews,' Vogue culture writer Specter blends her own struggles with binge eating and body image with the voices of prominent body-positive writers...to show how representation can be a healing agent. An inspiring personal account of living with an eating disorder and finding joy in a fat body." — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

'...a loving, urgent and necessary book about food and bodies and being a person in the world.' — Romper

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