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    Hunger games

    Mar 21, 2021 3 minutes
    by CHERYL SUCHER

    I admit I had to ask a younger, switched-on colleague: who is Melissa Broder? His excitement suddenly grew exponentially. “She had this anonymous Twitter account @sosadtoday, which was weird and funny and erotic and dealt with her lifelong battle with anxiety, addiction, depression and mental illness.”

    I went on a hunt.

    Keep calm and disappoint your family.

    I came, I saw, I got emotionally attached to unavailable people.

    – so sad today (@sosadtoday)

    My curiosity was aroused, which seems to be the general comedic, intellectual and erotic intention of Broder’s, four books of poetry including and , and her first novel, , which concerns a young PhD student named Lucy who is writing her dissertation on Sappho and falls in love with a merman, inspired by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s .

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