Before Elizabeth Wurtzel captured the country’s attention with ProzacNation, she cut her teeth writing criticism at nymag. Revisit some of her best work, including her more recent, personal essays about her “compromised” brain and breast-cancer diagnosis
Elizabeth Wurtzel. Photo: Courtesy of Elizabeth Wurtzel When news broke on January 7 that author Elizabeth Wurtzel had died at the age of 52, obituaries noted her unsparing, confessional writing that helped usher in a then-revolutionary style. In 1994, when she was just 27, Wurtzel published Prozac Nation, her raw memoir that detailed her struggles with depression, which, to use Wurtzel’s own words, “changed the way people see mental illness, and it changed the way publishers see memoirs.
“I was a hashtag before there was Twitter,” she wrote in a personal essay for New York in 2013. Five years after Prozac Nation, she would publish Bitch, a collection of essays about vilified women; in 2001, she wrote candidly about her struggles with addiction in another memoir, More, Now, Again. But before Wurtzel captured the country’s attention with her memoirs and confessional essays, she cut her teeth writing cultural criticism at New York, where she briefly wrote the pop-music column “Sounds.” In November 1989, she grooved to a Hawaiian band called Poi Dog Pondering, which sang peculiar lines about oatmeal, and Melissa Etheridge’s sophomore album; months later, she was hooked on Sinéad O’Connor, who she described as a “rock-and-roll E.T.
In celebration of Wurtzel’s storied career, we’ve compiled some of her best work for New York, from those early pieces of criticism, to her more recent, personal essays about her “compromised” brain and breast-cancer diagnosis. Photo: Andreas Laszlo Konrath/New York Magazine On being “born with a mind that is compromised by preternatural unhappiness,” and learning to “live with intent.
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