Eating Disorders: Publishers Weekly Reviews

Sunday 11 November 2012

Publishers Weekly Reviews

An acceptance to Cornell's graduate program causes a seismic shift in Hannah Guttentag's life. Moving to Ithaca in the early 90s, Hannah eagerly adapts from her Tennessee life to her "new badass Back East persona," starting the summer as a live-in nanny for the Careys. "Meatless breakfasts, homemade ricotta, no TV – this was what I expected from New York. The weather, too, was so foreign it made sense." Out around campus she quickly meets Frank, a fellow grad student and a "hyper-organized neat freak with a system for everything" who has an uncanny way of stretching his limits in the academic system to retain his stipend while studying Advanced Fiber Arts or an "independent study on silence Harry Thurston Peck was the first editor-in-chief of The Bookman, which began in 1895. Peck worked on its staff from 1895 to 1906, and in 1895, he created the world's first bestseller list for its pages. In 1912, Publishers Weekly began to publish its own bestseller lists, patterned after the lists in The Bookman. These were not separated into fiction and non-fiction until 1917 when World War I brought an increased interest in non-fiction by the reading public.