Hunger

But it's always, what are the rules? Right.

And along with reading The Beauty Myth, the Naomi Wolf book, I also read Hunger by Roxane Gay, which is a really beautiful, searing memoir.

And she raises a question that I was really curious to have you guys speak to.

At one point, she says, I'm going to quote from a couple different passages, but they're getting at the same basic quandary.

But we talk about hunger and we talk about appetite.

And hunger is different from appetite.

Appetite is, what do I want? Hunger is, my body needs food.

Appetite is, what sounds good? What do I really want? And so you can walk away from a meal feeling full and Mm-hmm.

Books have profoundly changed my life.

But more recently, in twenty seventeen, I started reading a book called Hunger by Roxane Gay.

And when I read that book, I fell in love with the author, sight unseen, just reading her words, so much so that I reached out to her.

I wanted to get her on my podcast.

And then through a mutual friend, she got wind that I was actually not a crazy person.

And then I asked her out on a date in twenty eighteen, and in twenty twenty, we got married.

[laughs] So my book, Hunger by Roxane Gay.

That, that is a wonderful fourth recommendation.

I don't know if I mentioned this to you when we had our podcast episode, but I mentioned it to someone.

It's called Hunger by Roxane Gay.

Have you heard of it?

Yes, I think we did talk about it.