From the Conde Nast building (where she rides the elevator alongside Anna Wintour) to seedy nightclubs, from doctors' offices and mental hospitals, Marnell shows-like no one else can-what it is like to live in the wild, chaotic, often sinister world of a young female addict who can't say no. We see her fight between ambition and addiction and how, inevitably, her disease threatens everything she worked so hard to achieve. When Cat Marnell was serving as an assistant at Lucky magazine, she fought to project an image to match the rest of Cond Nast’s ranks of stylish, put-together. It continues to New York, where we follow Marnell's amphetamine-fueled rise from intern to editor through the beauty departments of NYLON, Teen Vogue, Glamour, and Lucky. It begins at a posh New England prep school-and with a prescription for Attention Deficit Disorder medication Ritalin. After a privileged yet emotionally-starved childhood in Washington, she became hooked on ADHD medication provided by her psychiatrist father. This is a tale of self-loathing, self-sabotage, and yes, self-tanner. How to Murder Your Life by Cat Marnell 3.85 Rating details 15,970 ratings 1,484 reviews At the age of 15, Cat Marnell unknowingly set out to murder her life. She was also a 'doctor shopper' who manipulated Upper East Side psychiatrists for pills, pills, and more pills a lonely bulimic who spent hundreds of dollars a week on binge foods a promiscuous party girl who danced barefoot on banquets a weepy and hallucination-prone insomniac who would take anything-anything-to sleep. At twenty-six, Cat Marnell was an associate beauty editor at Lucky, one of the top fashion magazines in America-and that's all most people knew about her. "From Cat Marnell, 'New York's enfant terrible' (The Telegraph), a candid and darkly humorous memoir of prescription drug addiction and self-sabotage, set in the glamorous world of fashion magazines and downtown nightclubs.
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