I’ll tell you the truth: I’ve been intimidated by Amber Husain ever since I first encountered Meat Love: An Ideology of the Flesh on a bookstore table in New York a couple of years ago. What brilliance and cutting insight; what rigor that didn’t leave room for wiggling and waggling and caveats. This wasn’t the squishy way that I sometimes write, trying to adopt a posture of acceptance and openness to other people’s choices that (quite frankly) doesn’t come natural to me. When I read that her book Tell Me How You Eat would be released a couple of months before my own On Eating, I groaned. Then, in a surprise turn, I was asked to blurb it. Then, as is my Scorpio wont, I decided to turn my intimidation into camaraderie. And so, here we are.

On Tuesday at 11 a.m. EST, we will meet with Amber over Zoom to discuss this book and her work more broadly. It’s such an interesting memoir, one that complicates women’s appetites in a way that I’m desperate for—no easy answers, and no squirreling away from the big political implications of desire. The full notes are below, along with a link to the Zoom. If you’d like to receive an email reminder a half-hour before—or, as a non-member, purchase access—you can sign up here.