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Joe Drape is a reporter for The New York Times and the author of seven bestselling books, including The Saint Makers: Inside the Catholic Church and How a War Hero Inspired a Journey of Faith.
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Anna Rollins's forthcoming memoir Famished: On Food, Sex, and Growing Up as a Good Girl examines the rhyming scripts of purity culture and diet culture. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Slate, Salon, Electric Literature and other outlets. She lives in West Virginia with her husband and three small children.