Susan Burton: Anorexia, binge eating and hunger for feelings

<p>Susan Burton’s memoir, <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/214241/empty-by-susan-burton/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Empty</em></a><em>,</em> is out now from Random House. She is an editor at <a href="https://www.thisamericanlife.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>This American Life</em></a><em>, </em>where the episodes she’s produced include <a href="https://www.thisamericanlife.org/682/ten-sessions" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ten Sessions</a>, <a href="https://www.thisamericanlife.org/640/five-women" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Five Women</a>, and <a href="https://www.thisamericanlife.org/589/tell-me-im-fat" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Tell Me I’m Fat</a>. Her writing has appeared in the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/25/magazine/terry-gross-and-the-art-of-opening-up.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>New York Times Magazine</em></a><em>,</em> <a href="http://www.slate.com/authors.susan_burton.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Slate</em></a><em>,</em> <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/contributors/susan-burton" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>The New Yorker</em></a><em>,</em> and <a href="http://nymag.com/search/search.cgi?fd=All&amp;Ns=Relevance%7C0&amp;search_type=sw&amp;N=0&amp;textquery=%22susan+burton%22" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">others</a>, and she is a former editor of <em>Harper's. </em>Her radio documentaries have won numerous awards, including an Overseas Press Club citation, and she received a grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to do stories about teenagers. The film <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0488658/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Unaccompanied Minors</em></a><em>,</em> which was directed by <em>Freaks and Geeks</em> creator Paul Feig, is based on one of her <a href="https://www.thisamericanlife.org/175/babysitting/act-two-0" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">personal essa