5/19/2023 0 Comments How to murder your life cat“I would always write like I talked-lighten it up,” she says. That material may not sound like laugh-a-minute stuff, but Marnell’s style helped her pull it off. If you think that’s funny, you should read Marnell’s book, which chronicles the lonely and treacherous spiral of her prescription drug habit, her eating disorder, her roller-coaster careers at Condé Nast ( Vanity Fair’s parent company) and XOJane, her heroin overdose, her troubled and privileged childhood, her unsavory sex life, and her abusive friendship with a mentally unstable narcissist who regularly stole from her, including, at one point, everything in her apartment. Which is a joke: she said she’s just trying to give me something that the other reporters don’t have, and laughed. Arriving to our interview in one of her now-signature flowing pastel wigs-whose origins have been hazily described and never quite nailed down in countless profiles-she told me the truth is that her father made her get a lobotomy, and the wigs cover up the scars. On the heels of a whirlwind publicity tour for her hit memoir, How to Murder Your Life, Cat Marnell has a refreshing sense of humor about the exploitative nature of journalism.
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