Condition By Christopher Sorrentino

Short story based on the infamous suicide of 1970's television news reporter Christine Chubbuck.

Faith

Read from the journal Conjunctions 40 on the Internet Archive.

This was very rambly and not in a good way - Sorrentino's narration and descriptions of Chubbuck felt very misogynistic, especially the comments about her breasts, legs, and her taking dexatrim.

The icing on the cake - in a piece where it seemed he would have done his research - was using the misquote of her last words.

Aside from all this, this could have been a sensitive and provoking piece on a deeply misunderstood woman wrongly defined by her death.
Regina Beaucheane

Well-written short story based on the suicide of TV personality Christine Chubbuck, who shot herself in the head on live television July 15, 1974 and died later that evening. Troubling insight into the depressive worldview.
Lauralat

https://www.jstor.org/stable/24516069