
41. How to Reinvent Yourself: Jenny Valentish, author of ‘Everything Harder’ [reads] Giraldi’s ‘The Hero’s Body’
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How to Make Your Own Creation Myth
The author came across Body as part of his research for a book about bodybuilding in Newbork. He says that the best pro-body builders are self-made monuments, aberrations and 'unholy monks of muscle' His purpose is to tell of bodies which have been transformed into shapes of a different kind. To exist in that world of extremity is to leave the rest of us behind, almost completely.
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