![]() ![]() ![]() How to Murder Your Life is, in essence, just that. The idea of the good a voice like that could do for the addicted seemed lost. I’ve read thousands of words about beauty products I’ll never use, simply because she is that arresting of a writer. And they did this all the while denying the simple fact that she was not just an addict, but an addict with a voice. Her writing “attracted gallows watchers and pontificators, people eager to degrade or chide her for her actions or utilize her for ethical discussions centered on celebrity culture, confessional writers and our national obsession with the tragic,” I wrote. The whole thing seemed so evil I was moved to write an op-ed for The Myrtle Beach Sun News, defending her as a gifted writer, something ridiculous when the writer in question has signed a lucrative deal with a major New York house and something like “talent” is usually beyond reproach. ![]() Her main condition, the least pitied of all pathologies, is addiction. The entire saga was laced with hatred, because although Marnell was achieving media success directly because of her sickness, she was not afflicted with something relatable like cancer. ![]() Yellow headlines blared-even a publication as august as The Atlantic couldn’t resist running the headline, “Cat Marnell’s Book Deal Could Buy a Lot of Drugs.” Then the book proposal’s contents were leaked, leading to ridicule and Marnell’s all-caps Twitter declaration that she hates herself more than we hate her. Press surrounding Cat Marnell’s book deal was dripping with venom. ![]()
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