Slip, Not Failure: A Conversation With Mallary Tenore Tarpley on Rethinking Eating Disorder Recovery

I was honored to interview Mallary Tenore Tarpley, author and journalism and writing professor at the University of Texas at Austin, about her new book, “Slip: Life in the Middle of Eating Disorder Recovery.” The book, part memoir and part reportage, details her own experiences with eating disorders, starting at 11 years old after her mother died of breast cancer, through high school, college, and…