Eating Disorders: Liesl Schillinger

Sunday 11 November 2012

Liesl Schillinger

Liesl Schillinger is a journalist, literary critic and translator based in New York. She grew up in Midwestern university towns, where she studied French and German, then attended Yale, where she studied Comparative Literature and Russian. She worked at The New Yorker Magazine for more than a decade, and has been a regular book critic for the New York Times Book Review since 2004. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, The Washington Post, New York Magazine, The New York Times, Newsweek, Allure, Vogue, and many publications here and in the U.K. She is a frequent moderator of literary panels, and is also the creator of (a neologisms blog dating from 3/28/2009, illustrated by Elizabeth Zechel), scheduled for publication by Free Press as a full-color, hardcover book in June 2013. Her translation of the novel, “Every Day, Every Hour,” by Nataša Dragnić, was published in May, 2012 (Viking).