“The newest buzzword in the GLP-1 conversation is ‘ghost fat,’ a term used to describe people who continue to perceive themselves as larger than they are after weight-loss,” Virgie Tovar reports in her latest Forbes piece, “The Problem With Framing Fatness As A Haunting.” Read it, then follow it up with One or Two by H.D. Everett — a 19th century “metaphysical thriller” reissued by Mandylion Press, in which main character Frances loses weight via “a slenderizing séance” and “rather than dissipating, [her] unwanted bulk transforms into a double, a manifestation of her soul divided.” (Yes, that is the second 1800s novel rec in this newsletter.)