I am drawn to the scene in Mary Gaitskill’s Veronica where teenage model Alison gorges herself on marzipan animals, sugared almonds, figs, “big fat olives” and fancy nuts when left to her own devices in her Parisian apartment.
Andrea Lambert is a queer writer and artist with Schizoaffective Disorder and Long COVID. Themes of abjection, mental illness, transgression and the occult inhabit her work. Author of Jet Set Desolate, Scaffolding and other books.Anthologies: Impact,Golden State 2017, Haunting Muses and elsewhere. Writing in Blanket Sea, The Because Better Project, OCCULUM and elsewhere. Nevada recluse. She/Her. Twitter: @AndreaLamber. Site: andreaklambert.com.
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