![]() It continues to New York, where we follow Marnell's amphetamine-fueled rise from intern to editor through the beauty departments of NYLON, Teen Vogue, Glamour, and Lucky. It begins at a posh New England prep school - and with a prescription for attention deficit disorder medication Ritalin. This is a tale of self-loathing, self-sabotage, and, yes, self-tanner. She was also a "doctor shopper" who manipulated Upper East Side psychiatrists for pills, pills, and more pills a lonely bulimic who spent hundreds of dollars a week on binge foods a promiscuous party girl who danced barefoot on banquets a weepy and hallucination-prone insomniac who would take anything - anything - to sleep. ![]() From Cat Marnell, "New York's enfant terrible" ( The Telegraph), a candid and darkly humorous memoir of prescription drug addiction and self-sabotage, set in the glamorous world of fashion magazines and downtown nightclubs.Īt 26 Cat Marnell was an associate beauty editor at Lucky, one of the top fashion magazines in America - and that's all most people knew about her. ![]()
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