JoAnna Novak

JoAnna Novak is the author of the memoir "Contradiction Days: A Writer on the Verge of Motherhood." Her short story collection "Meaningful Work" won the Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Contest and was published by FC2. She is also the author of the novel "I Must Have You" and four collections of poetry. Her latest book is "Domestirexia."

Richard Simmons

As a teen with an eating disorder, Richard Simmons showed me I could exercise with joy and hope JoAnna Novak

The Sfincione at Felix Trattoria

Felix Trattoria's Sfincione (or, focaccia by any other name) JoAnna Novak

Avocado Chocolate Pudding

The Menuist: An avocado chocolate pudding from Abbott Kinney that everybody will love JoAnna Novak

Jonathan Gold

When nobody else could, Jonathan Gold helped me understand and then love LA—one restaurant at a time JoAnna Novak

Anthony Bourdain

Chasing Anthony Bourdain's "perfect little things": Kitchen work and what I hungered for JoAnna Novak

Old School AOL Instant Messenger

My so-called online life: Coming of age in the AIM era JoAnna Novak

Lily collins as Ellen (Eli) in

The "eating disorder movie," beyond sickness and health JoAnna Novak

Woman Exercising

Body of work: Women writers on disordered eating, writing the body and the book launch diet JoAnna Novak

Just happy being themselves!

Challenging the so-called "health" challenge: Our obsession with the "before" and "after" body transformation JoAnna Novak

Gwyneth Paltrow, Ted Nugent, Lena Dunham

Eat (like) the rich: Our celebrity cookbook obsessions, ourselves JoAnna Novak

It's National Eating Disorder Awareness Week, and once again, I'm not participating JoAnna Novak

David Bowie; Prince; Carrie Fisher

Do not go gentle into 2017: How to pay meaningful tribute to the idols you lost in 2016 JoAnna Novak

Close-up of the feet of a couple on the bed

Peace on Earth — and at home for the holidays JoAnna Novak

We can't all be the Bluths: Are we too quick to call our families "dysfunctional"? JoAnna Novak

Moon Juice's haute healing: What aspirational lifestyle diet books are really selling JoAnna Novak

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