An Evening With Mallary Tenore Tarpley
Join us for an evening with Mallary Tenore Tarpley, a journalist, University of Texas writing professor, and author of "Slip,” a new book on the imperfections of eating disorder recovery. She will be interviewed by memoirist Alysia Abbott. This event will include an author talk, audience Q+A, and book signing. Program begins at 7:00 PM. Doors will open at 6:30 PM.
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About Slip
When Mallary Tenore Tarpley lost her mother at eleven years old, she wanted to stop time. If growing up meant living without her mother, then she wanted to stay little forever. What started as small acts of food restriction soon turned into a full-blown eating disorder, and a year later, Tarpley was admitted to Boston’s Children’s Hospital.
With honesty and grace, "Slip" chronicles Tarpley’s childhood struggles with anorexia to her present-day experiences grappling with recovery.With new insights and an uplifting message, "Slip" brings much-needed attention to an issue that affects many. It offers a beacon of hope with its revolutionary perspective on recovery. This inspiring and life-affirming book is a must-read for individuals with eating disorders, their loved ones, educators, medical professionals, and anyone seeking to understand eating disorders and the path to recovery.
About Mallary Tenore Tarpley
Mallary Tenore Tarpley is a journalism and writing professor at the University of Texas at Austin’s Moody College of Communication and McCombs School of Business. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and The Dallas Morning News, among other publications. She is the recipient of a prestigious Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant, which helped support her research and writing. Mallary graduated from Providence College and has a master’s of fine arts in nonfiction writing from Goucher College. She lives outside of Austin, Texas, with her husband and two children. “Slip” is her first book.
About Alysia Abbott
Alysia Abbott is the author of Fairyland, A Memoir of My Father, which was a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice and an ALA Stonewall Award winner, a winner of the Madame Figaro Prix Heroine, and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards. She grew up in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury, the only child of gay poet and writer, Steve Abbott. As a journalist, essayist, and critic, she's written for The Boston Globe, The Guardian, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post, among other publications. She is co-founder of The Recollectors Project, dedicated to remembering parents lost to AIDS and supporting the children they left behind.
Formerly the Director of the Boston Literary District, she now runs GrubSreet’s Memoir Incubator Program in Boston. Alysia currently lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with her family.