https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jan/12/elizabeth-wurtzel-my-chats-with-prozac-nation-author-nosheen-iqbal

A heartfelt tribute reveals some of the emails shared over six years with the author of Prozac Nation

Pop culture loves the hot mess: a female character – real or otherwise – hurtling from one improbable drama to the next. She is gregarious and overshares, she is narcissistic but magnetic. She has become a familiar trope in film and television, trolleying around with fag ash, drink spilling, hem riding up, and is almost always white.

It’s difficult to fathom then, that when Elizabeth Wurtzel published Prozac Nation in 1994, all this – women being unashamedly improper and full of irrepressible feeling – was still relatively uncharted, eyebrow-raising territory.