Author Archives: Clare Dunkle
The anorexia memoirs have been out for a year and a half now–a year and a half of busy todays that have helped me forget the painful yesterdays. Most of the time, those two memoirs seem as if they’re still …
In the News
Last week, Elena and I worked up an 800-word article together. There’s nothing new about that: lately, we’ve been so busy fulfilling interview, blog, or article requests that I’ve had no time to update our websites. And there’s nothing new …
“Someone finally put words on a page to describe my struggle.” I was browsing the Internet for the latest news on Elena Vanishing when I found this statement. It brought tears to my eyes. Years ago, when Elena and I …
A Question of Light
Last week, I had my photograph taken–for the very first time. Now, it’s true that other photographs of me exist. Not many, I’ll admit, because I don’t pose willingly. Perhaps that’s because my career as a photography model didn’t get …
The Times Magazine will be serializing ELENA VANISHING and HOPE AND OTHER LUXURIES next month, so last week, they flew a photographer out to Frankfurt to photograph me. What an honor! The Times is a venerable institution. It has had …
Crafts for Geeks
My daughter Elena loves to cross stitch. Occasionally, she uses patterns, but most of the time, she makes up her own. She favors retro designs that also pay tribute to the icons of her Millennial generation, such as this Welcome …
Books and New Beginnings
I didn’t write down a single story until I was almost forty years old. Until that day, my characters existed just for me, to keep me company and help me through my days. Even when I began to write, that …
Coming soon…
I first started working on my daughter Elena’s memoir in May, 2009. Five years is a long time to give to a writing project, especially one full of so much personal pain. Along the way, her memoir became two: a …
Good-Bye to All That
Today, I took down the comments function on my blog. It isn’t that I don’t want to read your comments. I do! And it isn’t that I can’t fend off the ridiculous spam comments, either. I have great plugins to …
When you ask a German friend, “Do you have Spam? Hast du Spam?” he or she won’t think of the canned lunch meat. No, that’s das Frühstücksfleisch, and it’s produced by a number of different companies, but the old favorite …