Heavy Lifting: Dara-Lynn Weiss’s Memoir Hits Shelves
Remember when Dara-Lynn Weiss wrote about putting her overweight 7-year-old daughter, Bea, on a diet in last April’s issue of Vogue? In the event that you do not, Ms. Weiss provides a handy refresher in her new book The Heavy, which hits shelves this week. “All hell broke loose when the Vogue article came out,” Ms. Weiss writes. “From the reaction in the blogosphere, you would have thought that I maimed my daughter.”
Ms. Weiss thought that the article would generate a little mommy-blog buzz, but of course, Vogue has a slightly wider reach than that. And in this case, the punishment was not just the ire of the Internet, but also a swift book deal with Ballantine. Now, just 10 months later, The Heavy is here in hardcover. Read More
