Marilee Strong A Bright Red Scream

Sharp Object s on HBO In the years since I first began researching self-injury or cutting back in the early 1990s, public interest in the subject has grown dramatically from very low—when I wrote the first magazine cover story on the subject—to new highs in recent years. Actually, what I think is that there was--even twenty years ago, an amazing amount of interest and urgent need to know--but that was limited mainly to young girls and sometimes their families and that interest was kept submerged from public view. The subject was considered “taboo” in the traditional media, especially before the first edition of A Bright Red Scream was published in 1999. What followed seemed like a torrent of media coverage that has never stopped and cutting then found its way into popular culture. Recently, I’ve been watching the much talked about HBO series called  Sharp Objects based on the novel by Gillian Flynn which features a central character who is a cutter played by actress Amy Adams. Ent