Podcasts about easy beauty

Chloé Cooper Jones war mit ihrem Buch "Easy Beauty" für den Pulitzer-Preis nominiert. Es thematisiert, wie die Welt auf sie blickt – sie, die mit einer deutlich sichtbaren Behinderung geboren wurde. Ihr Ziel: "Weniger gleichgültig und still sein." Cooper Jones, Chloé www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de, Lesart

Chloé Cooper Jones war mit ihrem Buch "Easy Beauty" für den Pulitzer-Preis nominiert. Es thematisiert, wie die Welt auf sie blickt – sie, die mit einer deutlich sichtbaren Behinderung geboren wurde. Ihr Ziel: "Weniger gleichgültig und still sein." Cooper Jones, Chloé www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de, Lesart

Chloé Cooper Jones war mit ihrem Buch "Easy Beauty" für den Pulitzer-Preis nominiert. Es thematisiert, wie die Welt auf sie blickt – sie, die mit einer deutlich sichtbaren Behinderung geboren wurde. Ihr Ziel: "Weniger gleichgültig und still sein." Cooper Jones, Chloé www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de, Lesart

 Our guest is writer and philosopher Chloe Cooper Jones, author of the memoir Easy Beauty.  Jones was born with sacral agenesis, a rare congenital condition that affects her gait and her stature.  In Easy Beauty, she details how that informs her experience of the world – and delivers a powerful philosophical examination of how society thinks about beauty. Jones is a contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine, and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2000 for her profile of Ramsey Orta, the man who filmed the killing of Eric Garner, as well as in 2023 for Easy Beauty.  On April 26, 2024, Jones came to the Sydney Goldstein Theater in San Francisco for an onstage conversation with Catherine Lacey. 

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What's it like to be told your whole life you can't have children because of a disability you were born with — only to find out that you're pregnant? Writer and Pulitzer Prize finalist Chloé Cooper Jones talks to us about her unexpected journey to motherhood and her beautiful memoir, Easy Beauty. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One essay—that begins in your journal!—can change your life.On this episode of Bookbound, we explore the inspiring journey of Chloé Cooper Jones, whose memoir, Easy Beauty, began as an essay and turned into a Pulitzer Prize Finalist memoir.As Chloé navigated the publishing world, she came away with some important insights on how to invest in the industry, the power of actually finishing the writing projects you start, and how to find and work with your agent and editor team for maximum success.And all of these pieces make up the magic (not luck!) that is publishing a book that makes you a better artist and person.Don't miss this juicy conversation about embracing imperfections, fostering genuine collaboration, and the magic of assembling a stellar team. (Plus, you just might catch a sneak peek into Chloé's upcoming second book!)Resources:Easy Beauty by Chloé Cooper Jones Follow Chloé Cooper JonesApply for Fran & Bethany's Spring 2024 BOOKBOUND Accelerator here.Produced by Share Your Genius

In this final installment of my interview with Jodie Noel Vinson, she spills the deets on her favorite writers and books and how - Inspiring figures from history who were chronically ill, including Florence Nightengale and Charles Darwin–lightbulb moment! - I gush about the memoir Easy Beauty, by Chloe Cooper Jones–one of my top reads of 2022 (now available in paperback!) - The essayists Jodie can't get enough of - Jodie also admits the musical megastar who rose to fame in the 80s that she didn't really experience until 2020–and how his music is a touchstone for her today For full show notes with links to everything we discuss, plus bonus photos!, visit katehanley.substack.com. Big thanks to our sponsor, AirDoctorPro.com. Use promo code KATE to save up to $300 off an air purifier and receive an extended warranty for free. Support your health *and* this podcast! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“That's just like the human struggle, is how is it that our interiority and the way that we're perceived externally, how do we live with that? How does it act? Like, how do those things influence each other? Like, that's maybe the human problem. And so academia puts another layer on that, disability puts another layer on that, being an artist puts another layer on that because there is this expectation I think in those spaces to both use your identity to flag something socially to the world, but also, if you do that, then you take on all the trappings, the preconceived notions, the stereotypes of that.” So says Chloé Cooper Jones, the author of the truly stunning memoir Easy Beauty, which unsurprisingly, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Chloé was born with sacral agenesis, a rare congenital condition that impacts her gait and her stature, and makes it at times painful to move throughout the world. Her memoir is a study in the way her condition has kept her apart, driving her toward intellectual superiority as a defense mechanism against a world that doesn't feel like it belongs to her. In Easy Beauty, she travels the globe, reclaiming spaces and her own body as she had always refused to make it the center of her scholarship. As she travels, Chloé probes big questions, like why do we gather at places where terrible things have happened and who gets to be a philosopher? She also explores the qualities of easy versus difficult beauty, beauty we have to work for. Chloé is a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine and an Associate Professor at Columbia University's MFA program. This is one of my favorite conversations to date, so let's turn to it now. MORE FROM CHLOÉ COOPER JONES: Easy Beauty: A Memoir Follow Chloé on Instagram Chloé's Website To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Where do you go to escape the pain of reality? Today, author Chloé Cooper Jones shares:  The survival strategy many of us use to retreat from our lives and how to become more present;  How she grapples with the world dehumanizing her disabled body;  Why desire and disgust are so connected – and what they teach us; and  The thing Chloé wants most – to be seen as inherently whole – and how to get it.  About Chloé: Chloé Cooper Jones is a professor, journalist, and the author of the memoir Easy Beauty, which was named a best book of 2022 by The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, TIME Magazine, and was a finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Memoir. She was also a Pulitzer Prize finalist in Feature Writing in 2020. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.  TW: @CCooperJones IG: @chloecooperjones To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Our selection this month is Andrew Leland's memoir ‘The Country of the Blind.' It's about Andrew's constantly shifting world as his vision deteriorates, and it explores the mythology that blindness is a binary. It's also about how seeing-culture perceives blindness, and the history of blindness in the US. The wide-ranging discussion includes M. Leona Godin, a self-described “blind punk” who wrote the 2021 book ‘There Plant Eyes: A Personal and Cultural History of Blindness,' and Chloe Cooper Jones, the author of the memoir ‘Easy Beauty,' which came out last year.]]>

Notes and Links to Chloé Cooper Jones' Work        Chloé Cooper Jones is a professor, journalist, and the author of the memoir Easy Beauty, which was named a best book of 2022 by The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, TIME Magazine, and was a finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Memoir. She was also a Pulitzer Prize finalist in Feature Writing in 2020. She is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, a Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant recipient and a Howard Foundation Fellow. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.      For Episode 197 of The Chills at Will Podcast, Pete welcomes Chloé Cooper Jones, and the two discuss, among other things, her early relationship with reading, writing, seeking beauty, her parents' influences on her world views, formative and transformative writers (and “fun trash” she read), and salient topics from her powerful memoir, such as muses and aesthetes, pop culture and philosophy, bigoted views on women as those with disabilities, and the pertinent trips that Chloé took in seeking beauty, catharsis, and hope.      Buy Easy Beauty: A Memoir   Chloe's Website   Chloe's Pulitzer-Prize Nominated Article for The Verge- “Fearing for His Life”   People Magazine 2022 Article about Easy Beauty-“Author Chloé Cooper Jones, Who Has a Visible Disability, On Deciding to Claim Space For Herself and Her Son” At about 1:35, Chloe lets the listener in on her mindset in hearing about her second Pulitzer Prize nomination, including the beauty of combining family pursuits and career    At about 6:55, Chloe gives out information regarding where to buy her book, and her contact information, including Greenlight and Books are Magic, and Lawrence, KS' The Raven Bookstore   At about 8:45, Chloe talks about her childhood and its focus on beauty as impressed upon her by her parents in their different ways; she calls “having a rich interior life a survival mechanism”    At about 13:15, Pete shouts out a short story idea from Chloe's father that was emblematic of his mind   At about 14:00, Chloe details some of the reading that excited and challenged her as she grew up, and “the fun trash” too   At about 16:40, Chloe lists Diane Williams and Cormac McCarthy, among many others, as formative writers   At about 17:30, Pete asks Chloe about David Foster Wallace and some other nonfiction she may have read; she notes how “exciting” his sportswriting was, and Janet Malcolm and John McPhee as other great influences   At about 20:20, Chloe shouts out the recently-released and incredibly versatile work of Andrew Leland-The Country of the Blind, Rachel Aviv's work, and Jessamine Chan's School for Good Mothers   At about 22:10, Chloe responds to Pete's question about if she felt represented in what she read growing up, and she answers the question using Coming Home as one anomaly   At about 26:30, Chloe reflects on the use of the word “disabled” and its myriad meanings    At about 28:05, Chloe answers Pete's questions about the balance between disabled people educating others and well-meaning people and possible dehumanizing actions; she cites a telling excerpt from Andrew Leland's book   At about 33:30, Pete cites Elaine Scarry and how Chloe connects ideas of processing beauty and ignorance   At about 34:15, Pete lays out the structure for the book as based on trips Chloe took, and he and Chloe discuss the importance and circumstances of the first trip chronicled, the trip to see Beyonce at San Siro; Chloe builds on the idea and definitions of “easy beauty”   At about 41:55, Pete compliments Chloe's genuine writing about her son and motherhood   At about 42:55, Chloe explains the power of Beyonce and her “radical presence”   At about 45:50, The two discuss the freeing nature of Chloe's reporting trip to see Roger Federer, which leads to further discussion of how Chloe's melds philosophy and more aesthetic ideals with a more pop(ular) sensibility   At about 51:10, Chloe discusses an opening scene from the book that engendered strong feelings for her, as well as pervasive beliefs    At about 54:45, Chloe reflects on what was different about her reaction to the above conversation and the phenomenon of “The Neutral Room”   At about 56:35, The two discuss the book's “Indifferent Man”   At about 59:20, Chloe gives background on her trip to Rome and seeking beauty and connections to her father's philosophies    At about 1:04:15, The two discuss Chloe's trip to Cambodia, and she discusses the evolving nature of her research and searching questions, as catharsis and society's desire for witnessing violence become topics   At about 1:13:10, Pete notes the emphasis on capitalism in “dark tourism” and the seeming normality of dark tourism sites   At about 1:14:35, The two discuss a final scene dealing with perspective and Chloe's mother and a trip to Miami   At about 1:19:25, Chloe responds to Pete's question about how she deals with writing on profound and deeply painful and tragic topics   At about 1:23:45, Chloe talks about upcoming events and projects, including working with Matty Davis in Bentonville, AR    You can now subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, and leave me a five-star review. You can also ask for the podcast by name using Alexa, and find the pod on Stitcher, Spotify, and on Amazon Music. Follow me on IG, where I'm @chillsatwillpodcast, or on Twitter, where I'm @chillsatwillpo1. You can watch this and other episodes on YouTube-watch and subscribe to The Chills at Will Podcast Channel. Please subscribe to both my YouTube Channel and my podcast while you're checking out this episode.    Sign up now for The Chills at Will Podcast Patreon: it can be found at patreon.com/chillsatwillpodcastpeterriehl     Check out the page that describes the benefits of a Patreon membership, including cool swag and bonus episodes. Thanks in advance for supporting my one-man show, my DIY podcast and my extensive reading, research, editing, and promoting to keep this independent podcast pumping out high-quality content!    NEW MERCH! You can browse and buy here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/ChillsatWillPodcast    This is a passion project of mine, a DIY operation, and I'd love for your help in promoting what I'm convinced is a unique and spirited look at an often-ignored art form.    The intro song for The Chills at Will Podcast is “Wind Down” (Instrumental Version), and the other song played on this episode was “Hoops” (Instrumental)” by Matt Weidauer, and both songs are used through ArchesAudio.com.    Please tune in for Episode 198 with Sarah Thankam Mathews (Thungun) who is the author of the novel All This Could Be Different, which was shortlisted for the 2022 National Book Award and the 2022 Discover Prize, and nominated for the Aspen Literary Prize. She is formerly a Rona Jaffe Fellow in fiction at the Iowa Writers Workshop, and a Margins Fellow at The Asian American Writers Workshop. 

Episode 196 Notes and Links to Rachel Howzell Hall's Work       On Episode 196 of The Chills at Will Podcast, Pete welcomes Rachel Howzell Hall and the two discuss, among other things, her devotion to reading throughout her life, her love of crime writing and thrillers, the draw of her favorite writers, and ideas raised and dealt with in her writing, including themes of loneliness, identity, racism, traumas both historical and individual, gentrification, and fear.      Rachel Howzell Hall''s debut novel, A Quiet Storm, was published in 2002 by Scribner to great notice, and was chosen as a “Rory's Book Club” selection, the must-read book list for fictional television character Rory Gilmore of The Gilmore Girls.    She is the critically acclaimed author and Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist for And Now She's Gone, which was also nominated for the Lefty-, Barry- and Anthony Awards. A New York Times bestselling author of The Good Sister with James Patterson, Rachel is an Anthony-, International Thriller Writers- and Lefty Award nominee and the author of They All Fall Down, Land of Shadows, Skies of Ash, Trail of Echoes and City of Saviors in the Detective Elouise Norton series as well as the author of the bestselling Audible Original, How It Ends.    Rachel is a former member of the board of directors for Mystery Writers of America and has been a featured writer on NPR's acclaimed Crime in the City series and the National Endowment for the Arts weekly podcast; she has also served as a mentor in Pitch Wars and the Association of Writers Programs.    She lives in L.A. with her husband and daughter.       Buy What Never Happened   Rachel's Website   Review of What Never Happened from Kirkus Reviews  At about 1:20, Rachel talks about her mindset in the days leading up to the publication of What Never Happened on August 1, 2023; she also    At about 4:20, Rachel talks about the realism she seeks in her writing, particularly the book's ending   At about 5:30, The two discuss the book's bold opening   At about 6:15, Rachel gives background on her early reading and writing and love for LA, as well as her lifelong fascination with crime   At about 8:55, Rachel talks about the power of Stephen King's work, particularly It   At about 10:20, Rachel talks about her experience at UC Santa Cruz   At about 11:00, Rachel discusses representation in the work she read growing up, and her desire to reflect different realities in her work in her specific way   At about 13:30, Rachel cites Laura Lippman, Megan Abbott and Gillian Flynn as writers whose treatment of “complex female characters” inspires her and her own work; she also cites Dennis Lehane and his “twists”; Eric Larson (telegraphs) and Jon Krakeur, too, are nonfiction writers who have influenced her    At about 16:30, Rachel responds to Pete's question about how she sees genre and she highlights “sense of place” by Jordan Harper and Tod Goldberg   At about 19:20, Rachel talks in general and specifically about What Never Happened regarding writing the balance between plot/theme/allegory, etc.   At about 22:05, Rachel discusses the book's setting and seeds for the book, including the draw of Catalina Island for someone who grew up in Los Angeles    At about 24:15, Rachel talks about the pandemic and obituaries and their effects on the books   At about 25:15,    At about 26:40, Pete and Rachel discuss Southland and their shared love for the show, as Pete connects the show's in medias res to the book's beginning   At about 29:00, The two discuss complications in the book and important characters in Coco's life, including her spurned and threatening ex-husband   At about 31:55, Rachel talks about how the tragedies that Coco experienced affects her as a “people pleaser”   At about 33:45, Rachel and Pete give a little historical background on Catalina Island, its landscape and unique social climate; Rachel shares some interesting historical anecdotes and trivia based on her research and some of her rationale in building upon themes in the book with regard to the island   At about 39:50, Rachel vouches for the historical veracity of the racist wording used in the Avalon newspapers in the archives Coco searches in the book   At about 42:00, The two shout out Gwen, who Rachel calls “everyone's sassy aunty”    At about 43:00, Pete quotes a great line from Gwen   At about 44:00, Rachel characterizes Noah, and how he views Coco   At about 46:30, Pete lays out a series of crimes that terrorize the island in the book, in tandem with the beginning of the Covid epidemic; Rachel expands upon ideas of the despicable things done in quarantine   At about 49:00, Pete highlights the cascading problems and scares that complicate Coco's life as the book goes on   At about 50:15, Pete recounts an early scene with a cab driver that is prophetic   At about 51:30, Pete outlines some key themes of the book-racism, gentrification, etc.: and Rachel expands on ideas of classicism and ideas of loneliness, as well as Garden of Eden   At about 54:10, Pete and Rachel   At about 55:40, Pete asks Rachel about writing in different voices-obituary, narration, etc.,-as well as the genesis of the book's title   At about 58:50, Rachel imagines who would play Coco if a movie of What Never Happened took place   At about 59:35, Rachel talks about exciting future projects    You can now subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, and leave me a five-star review. You can also ask for the podcast by name using Alexa, and find the pod on Stitcher, Spotify, and on Amazon Music. Follow me on IG, where I'm @chillsatwillpodcast, or on Twitter, where I'm @chillsatwillpo1. You can watch this and other episodes on YouTube-watch and subscribe to The Chills at Will Podcast Channel. Please subscribe to both my YouTube Channel and my podcast while you're checking out this episode.    Sign up now for The Chills at Will Podcast Patreon: it can be found at patreon.com/chillsatwillpodcastpeterriehl     Check out the page that describes the benefits of a Patreon membership, including cool swag and bonus episodes. Thanks in advance for supporting my one-man show, my DIY podcast and my extensive reading, research, editing, and promoting to keep this independent podcast pumping out high-quality content!    NEW MERCH! You can browse and buy here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/ChillsatWillPodcast    This is a passion project of mine, a DIY operation, and I'd love for your help in promoting what I'm convinced is a unique and spirited look at an often-ignored art form.    The intro song for The Chills at Will Podcast is “Wind Down” (Instrumental Version), and the other song played on this episode was “Hoops” (Instrumental)” by Matt Weidauer, and both songs are used through ArchesAudio.com.    Check out the next episode, which airs on August 1 Chloe Cooper Jones is a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine; She is also a Pulitzer Prize finalist in Feature Writing for “Fearing for His Life,” a profile of Ramsey Orta, the man who filmed the killing of Eric Garner, and the recipient of the 2020 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant and the 2021 Howard Foundation Grant from Brown University, with both grants in support of her 2023 book, Easy Beauty.    The episode will air on August 1.

In this segment, Lisa and Ken of Watters Garden Center in Prescott talk about xeriscape landscapes for easy beauty. It is possible to have a stunning yard with less maintenance, work, and water. Ken and Lisa share simple techniques that help your summer garden sine. You will be a plant pro after this week's show.Listen to Ken Lain's weekly gardener podcast. You can also listen to Ken Lain's Mountain Gardener Radio Show Live Saturdays at 8 am & 11 am and again on Sundays at 8 am on KQNA, and 11:30 am on 95.5 & 99.9FM.                                                                          Check out Watters Garden Center's website at: www.WattersGardenCenter.com.Follow Cast11 on Facebook: https://Facebook.com/CAST11AZFollow Cast11 on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cast11_podcast_network/Listen to Mountain Gardener on Cast11: https://mountaingardener.buzzsprout.com or wherever you stream podcasts.

Notes and Links to Jessica Cuello's Work      In Episode 195, Pete welcomes Jessica Cuello, and the two discuss, among other topics, her deep love for poetry and the French language, the power of libraries, transformational work by Jamaica Kincaid, the history of Mary Shelley, her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, and the chaotic and amazon lives led by the family members, ideas of guilt, trauma, misogyny, feminist power, death, doomed love, and identity.     Jessica Cuello's most recent book is Yours, Creature (JackLeg Press, 2023). Her book Liar, selected by Dorianne Laux for The 2020 Barrow Street Book Prize, was honored with The Eugene Nassar Prize, The CNY Book Award, a finalist nod for The Housatonic Book Award, and a longlist mention for The Julie Suk Award. Cuello is also the author of Hunt (The Word Works, 2017) and Pricking (Tiger Bark Press, 2016). Cuello has been awarded The 2022 Nina Riggs Poetry Prize, two CNY Book Awards, The 2016 Washington Prize, The New Letters Poetry Prize, a Saltonstall Fellowship, and The New Ohio Review Poetry Prize. In addition, Cuello has published three chapbooks: My Father's Bargain (2015), By Fire (2013), and Curie (2011). In 2014 she was awarded The Decker Award from Hollins University for outstanding secondary teaching. She is poetry editor at Tahoma Literary Review and teaches French in CNY.      Buy Yours, Creature   Jess' Website   Review of Yours, Creature At about 2:30, Jessica responds to Pete asking about where to buy Yours, Creature, and her social media/contact information   At about 3:40, Jessica talks about her relationship with language and literature, as well as books like Jamaica Kincaid's that changed her trajectory, and her relationships with libraries, small towns, and urban areas   At about 11:10, The two discuss teaching foreign language and evolving pedagogy   At about 12:05, Jessica answers Pete's questions about any links between French-which she teaches-and her own writing    At about 14:30, Pete talks about Mary Wollstonecraft and his knowledge or lack thereof in asking Mary about the links between her and her daughter, Mary Shelley; Jessica talks about seeds for her interest in the Marys   At about 20:10, The two discuss the frenetic life, particularly her teens and 20s, of Mary Shelley   At about 21:20, Pete asks about the rationale for the poetry collection's title; Jessica speaks to its significance    At about 22:55, Pete speaks about the epistolary form of the letters and wonders about the formality of much of the work   At about 24:10, Jessica gives background on her structure for the book and its iterations    At about 25:50, Pete lays out the book's first poem and birth and death; he reads from Page 4 and asks Jessica about ideas of revenge; she speaks of an evocative image   At about 28:30, Jessica cites evidence of Shelley's father, Godwin, and the stories he wrote about her life and the violence he perpetrated    At about 30:25, Pete reads from some early poems, laying out the divide between mother and stepdaughter   At about 31:00, The theme of loss is discussed   At about 31:50, Jessica reflects on her usage of initials for the males in the collection, particularly Godwin   At about 34:50, The two concentrate on a poem that deals with “threes” and the family dynamic after Mary Wollstonecraft's death and ideas of guilt   At about 37:10, Jessica explains a blank in a poem and its meanings and her rationale   At about 38:40, Jessica explains a legend about Mary Shelley and Percy's trysts    At about 40:25, Pete reads telling and moving lines about grief from the collection   At about 41:20, Men in Shelley's life are discussed in their flightiness, and Pete asks Jess about what shone through for Mary in loving Percy   At about 44:15, Pete highlights strong imagery, and Jess talks about Fanny, a half-sister of Mary, and ideas of women not wanting to “inconvenience” others   At about 47:25, Traumas of many types are discussed    At about 49:00, Jessica responds to Pete's wondering about “the creature” and its origins and meanings; Jessica and Pete reflect on the creature as “feminine”    At about 52:30, The two discuss the ways women's bodies are viewed, as Pete cites important lines from the collection   At about 54:00, Pete asks about any future project that Jessica is working on     You can now subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, and leave me a five-star review. You can also ask for the podcast by name using Alexa, and find the pod on Stitcher, Spotify, and on Amazon Music. Follow me on IG, where I'm @chillsatwillpodcast, or on Twitter, where I'm @chillsatwillpo1. You can watch this and other episodes on YouTube-watch and subscribe to The Chills at Will Podcast Channel. Please subscribe to both my YouTube Channel and my podcast while you're checking out this episode.    Sign up now for The Chills at Will Podcast Patreon: it can be found at patreon.com/chillsatwillpodcastpeterriehl     Check out the page that describes the benefits of a Patreon membership, including cool swag and bonus episodes. Thanks in advance for supporting my one-man show, my DIY podcast and my extensive reading, research, editing, and promoting to keep this independent podcast pumping out high-quality content!    NEW MERCH! You can browse and buy here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/ChillsatWillPodcast    This is a passion project of mine, a DIY operation, and I'd love for your help in promoting what I'm convinced is a unique and spirited look at an often-ignored art form.    The intro song for The Chills at Will Podcast is “Wind Down” (Instrumental Version), and the other song played on this episode was “Hoops” (Instrumental)” by Matt Weidauer, and both songs are used through ArchesAudio.com.    Check out the next episode, which airs on August 1. Chloe Cooper Jones is a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine; She is also a Pulitzer Prize finalist in Feature Writing for “Fearing for His Life,” a profile of Ramsey Orta, the man who filmed the killing of Eric Garner, and the recipient of the 2020 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant and the 2021 Howard Foundation Grant from Brown University, with both grants in support of her 2023 book, Easy Beauty.    The episode will air on August 1.

“Easy Beauty” is philosophy professor and Pulitzer Prize finalist, Chloe Cooper Jones memoir. It's a frank depiction of her life with a congenital condition that affects her height, how she moves and her life with continuous pain- both physical, and always being seen as lesser.

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In today's episode, Emily speaks with writer and philosophy professor Chloé Cooper Jones about her memoir Easy Beauty, which chronicles her quest to widen perceptions of beauty, motherhood, and disability. Find show notes, transcript, and more at thenocturnists.com.

Jennifer Lunden joins Let's Talk Memoir for a conversation about her experience with ME/CFS and her new braided memoir American Breakdown: Our Ailing Nation, My Body's Revolt, and the Nineteenth-Century Woman Who Brought Me Back to Life, writing about trauma, the long-term effects of adverse childhood experiences on health, misogyny in medicine, using imagery to ground our readers, how she found the right publisher, and what it takes to be a working, published writer.   Also in this episode: -capitalism and grind culture -epigenetics -destigmatizing ME/CFS and other autoimmune diseases   Books mentioned in this episode: Easy Beauty by Chloe Cooper Jones The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey The Two Kinds of Decay by Sarah Manguso The Ladies Handbook for Her Mysterious Illness by Sarah Ramsey Notes from No Man's Land by Eula Biss A Good Country: My LIfe in Twelve Towns and the Devastating Battle for a White America by Sofia Ali-Khan Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich Hope in the Dark by  Rebecca Solnit Jennifer Lunden is the author of American Breakdown: Our Ailing Nation, My Body's Revolt, and the Nineteenth-Century Woman Who Brought Me Back to Life. Her writing has been selected for a Pushcart Prize, listed as Notable in Best American Essays, and supported by grants from the Maine Arts Commission, the Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, and the Canada Council for the Arts. Her essays have been published in Creative Nonfiction, Orion, River Teeth, DIAGRAM, Longreads, and other journals. She has received fellowships from Yaddo, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Hewnoaks Artist Residency, Hedgebrook, Monson Arts, and the Dora Maar House in the South of France, and was the 2016 recipient of the Bread Loaf - Rona Jaffe Foundation Scholarship in Nonfiction.    A licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) and former therapist, she provides individual and group supervision to other therapists and has also taught social work online for Simmons University and the University of New England. In 2012 she was named Maine's Social Worker of the Year for her campaign to prevent cuts to Maine's Medicaid program. She and her husband live in a little house in Portland, Maine, where they keep several backyard chickens, two cats, and some gloriously untamed gardens.    Connect with Jennifer: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jennifer.lunden Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jleelunden/ Website: https://jenniferlunden.com/ Links for book purchase are on this page: https://jenniferlunden.com/american-breakdown/   -- Ronit Plank is a writer, teacher, and editor whose work has been featured in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Writer's Digest, The Rumpus, American Literary Review, Hippocampus, The Iowa Review, and elsewhere. Her memoir WHEN SHE COMES BACK about the loss of her mother to the guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and their eventual reconciliation was named a 2021 Best True Crime Book by Book Riot and was a Finalist in the National Indie Excellence Awards, the Housatonic Book Awards, and the Book of the Year Awards. Her fiction and creative nonfiction have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes, the Best of the Net, and the Best Microfiction Anthology, and her short story collection HOME IS A MADE-UP PLACE won Hidden River Arts' Eludia Award. She is creative nonfiction editor at The Citron Review and lives in Seattle with her family where she is working on her next book.   More about Ronit: https://ronitplank.com Sign up for monthly podcast and writing updates: https://bit.ly/33nyTKd Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ronitplank/ More about WHEN SHE COMES BACK, a memoir: https://ronitplank.com/book/ More about HOME IS A MADE-UP PLACE, a short story collection: https://ronitplank.com/home-is-a-made-up-place/ Connect with Ronit: https://www.instagram.com/ronitplank/ https://twitter.com/RonitPlank https://www.facebook.com/RonitPlank   Background photo: Canva Headshot photo credit: Sarah Anne Photography Theme music: Isaac Joel, Dead Moll's Fingers

Chloe Cooper Jones knows how it feels to be complicit. The critically acclaimed author has moved through life with a rare disability that brings incredible physical pain and plenty of outward judgment. And she's even guilty of judging herself. But now, she's challenging our ideas of motherhood, disability and beauty in her memoir, Easy Beauty. In this episode, she talks about using art to step outside of your own mind, sitting with difficult experiences, embracing the messy contradictions of the human experience, and more!

Welcome to the First Taste Reading Series on the Debutiful podcast feed! Each week, a debut author will read five minutes from their book to kick start your week and whet your appetite with damn good writing. Today, Chloe Cooper Jones reads an excerpt from her debut memoir Easy Beauty! You can purchase a copy of the book here: https://bookshop.org/p/books/easy-beauty-a-memoir-chloe-cooper-jones/18566301?ean=9781982152000 Follow the author: www.chloecooperjones.com/, www.instagram.com/chloecooperjones/, and www.twitter.com/CCooperJones. Follow Debutiful: www.debutiful.net, www.instagram.com/debutiful, and www.twitter.com/debutiful.

Show Notes⬇️⬇️⬇️ Intro:* Welcome to Spare Time - where we endorse spending your free time however the fuck you want!* Book Club - stay tuned for updates about our first Spare Time Book ep ~coming in April~. Speaking of April, our book is Easy Beauty by Chloe Cooper JonesHow did you spend your spare time this month:* AA: being an auntie, family dinners, music (lizzy/holly), making the carolina gelen salmon, professional mask* MM: turning 30, having guests in my home, meeting co-workers in personBest/Worst:* Best MM: birthday lunch: Ekiben the Neighborhood Bird sandwich (ft. Rich As Fuck by Lil Wayne)* Best AA: torched salmon sushi / the pancake song* Worst MM: feeling depressed and having memory loss (~vulnerable~)* Worst AA: none of my pants fit me lol / I need a brand new wardrobeSpare Time Rec:* AA: Maren Morris new album Humble Quest / bring back the honeybar* MM: @crispyegg420Culture / 3 Things You Need to Know:* A - the slap heard round the world * B - Taylor Swift backlash Where the Crawdads Sing* C - Joe Harding, who crafted the Don't Say Gay Bill in Florida, had his house destroyed by a tornado. I'm no expert but…seems like a sign from a wrathful Old Testament God.Look Ahead:* AA: Whole food journey (so no croissants) * MM: deleted instagram; digital wellness journey? Fitness journey??? This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit inyoursparetime.substack.com

Intro: Welcome to Spare Time, the pod where we recap the month How did you spend your spare time this month:* AA: SUMMERING: blueberry picking, weddings, capture the flag, cape cod, swimming, falling asleep on the couch * MM: flying across the world, realizing I am old (it's not that I don't feel good…it's that I *can't* feel good), becoming a motherBest/Worst:* Best MM: Indian food in India (mango lassis, chai, paneer), but since that is high-key a copout, Pride ~conceptually~* Best AA: Friendship Bracelet / Chocolate Cream Pie from Flour Bakery * Worst MM: realizing I hate summer squash and losing our basic rights* Worst AA: the VA tax office Spare Time Rec:* AA: Picnicking: Halloumi with Corn, Cherry Tomatoes, and Basil, Ginger Dill Salmon, Kale and Sugar Snap Pea Salad* MM: Muna's self-titled albumCulture / 3 Things You Need to Know:* Daily Harvest lentil gate* The One That Got Away feat. Betty Who* American Girl Doll meme explosion - thank you @hellicity_merrimanLook Ahead:* AA: maintaining my Coastal Grandma Lifestyle, reuniting with friends in NYC and Philly, turning 31, reading outside, hanging with my babes * MM: a very chaotic July awaits: another Indian wedding (but this time in Virginia), a week long work conference in Orlando, another work thing in PA, and testing out my MOH skills at a bachelorette party* Book club ep - discussing our June book, Easy Beauty by Chloe Cooper Jones, and our July book, We Do What We Do in the Dark by Michelle Hart This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit inyoursparetime.substack.com

Chloé Cooper Jones (Easy Beauty) joins Jordan to talk about avoiding mandates, about writing through pain and trauma, and about finding the neutral room in one's own mind. MENTIONED: "Everything is copy" -- Nora Ephron sacral agenesis Richard Serra Chloé Cooper Jones is a writer based in New York City. In 2020, Chloé was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in Feature Writing for “Fearing for His Life,” a profile of Ramsey Orta, the man who filmed the killing of Eric Garner. She was the recipient of the 2020 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant and the 2021 Howard Foundation Grant from Brown University. Both grants were in support of her debut memoir, Easy Beauty. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It is our great pleasure to welcome onto the podcast this week debut novelist, and journalist, Tracey Lien. Tracey grew up in Sydney, Australia. She was previously a reporter for Vox Media before going on to work for the Los Angeles Times. Tracey then made the brave leap into the world of fiction and joined the MFA program at the University of Kansas. It was during this time that her first novel All That's Left Unsaid was born. Set in the Vietnamese enclave of Cabramatta in Sydney the story opens with the brutal murder of a seventeen-year-old boy. Realising that the full details of the crime are not being uncovered by the police the sister of the murdered boy, Ky, takes it upon herself to find the witnesses and discover the truth for herself. All That's Left Unsaid manages to be both a compelling page-turner as well as a profound exploration of racism and the Vietnamese-Australian experience. The podcast is produced and presented by Jack Wrighton @jackwrighton and the team at Mostly Books. It is edited by Michael Roberts @michael.glyn.roberts Find us on Twitter @mostlyreading & Instagram @mostlybooks_shop. All That's Left Unsaid is published in the UK by HQ @hqstories. Books mentioned in this episode include: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone ISBN: 9781408855652 Civilwarland In Bad Decline by George Saunders ISBN: 9781784871291 More Than You'll Ever Know by Katie Gutierrez ISBN: 9780241529980 Easy Beauty by Chloe Cooper Jones ISBN: 9780349013824

When is the last time you paused — truly paused the flow of life — to appreciate something beautiful? For as long as we know, humans have sought out beauty, believing deeply that beautiful things and experiences can enhance our lives. But what does beauty really do to us? How can it fundamentally alter our experience of the world?Beauty is always “teaching me something about my own mind,” says the writer and philosopher Chloé Cooper Jones. In her book, “Easy Beauty,” Jones takes readers on a journey across the globe and into her intimate family life to explore what beauty has done for her and what it can potentially do for all of us.At the core of Jones's book — and of this conversation — is a distinction between two radically different kinds of beauty. On the one hand, there's “easy beauty”: a Renaissance painting, a sunset, a deliciously prepared meal. Easy beauty includes the kinds of things we are taught to consider beautiful. But Jones argues there's also a deeper form of beauty — a “difficult beauty,” which can be found in places that may initially strike us as mundane, messy, even ugly. That is, if we clear the space within our own minds long enough to look for it.This conversation also explores how Jones's relationship to her disabled body has changed over time, what it means to appreciate the physical world more fully, how all of us are affected by our society's crushing physical beauty standards, how Jones has created a “neutral room” in her mind to cope with those difficult standards, what attending a Beyoncé concert taught her about “radical presence,” what a celebrity party Peter Dinklage attended revealed about how far we need to go in respecting different bodies, why it is worth it to “make friends” with the idea that we may all become disabled or incapacitated at some point, how children reflect and reveal parts of ourselves we didn't even know existed, what advice she has for those of us who spend very little time considering beauty but could benefit from it as Jones has, and more.Book Recommendations:Staring by Rosemarie Garland-ThomsonH is for Hawk by Helen MacdonaldRomance in Marseille by Claude McKayThis episode is guest-hosted by Tressie McMillan Cottom (@tressiemcphd), a sociologist and writer whose work focuses on higher education policy, race, beauty and more. She is a Times Opinion columnist and the author of “Thick: And Other Essays,” which was a finalist for the National Book Award, and “Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy.”Thoughts? Guest suggestions? Email us at ezrakleinshow@nytimes.com.You can find transcripts (posted midday) and more episodes of “The Ezra Klein Show” at nytimes.com/ezra-klein-podcast, and you can find Ezra on Twitter @ezraklein. Book recommendations from all our guests are listed at https://www.nytimes.com/article/ezra-klein-show-book-recs.“The Ezra Klein Show” is produced by Annie Galvin and Rogé Karma; fact-checking by Michelle Harris, Mary Marge Locker and Kate Sinclair; original music by Isaac Jones; mixing by Sonia Herrero and Isaac Jones; audience strategy by Shannon Busta. Special thanks to Kristin Lin and Kristina Samulewski.

Welcome to Open Form, a weekly film podcast hosted by award-winning writer Mychal Denzel Smith. Each week, a different author chooses a movie: a movie they love, a movie they hate, a movie they hate to love. Something nostalgic from their childhood. A brand-new obsession. Something they've been dying to talk about for ages and their friends are constantly annoyed by them bringing it up. In this episode of Open Form, Mychal talks to Chloe Cooper Jones (Easy Beauty) about the 1978 film Coming Home, directed by Hal Ashby and starring Jane Fonda, Jon Voight, and Bruce Dern. Chloé Cooper Jones is the author of Easy Beauty. She was awarded a 2020 Whiting Nonfiction Grant and was a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in Feature Writing. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"I'm human like anybody else. I'm susceptible to all these bad narratives that I both internalize about myself or can turn on other people." Pulitzer Prize finalist, professor, and author Chloé Cooper Jones joins Zibby to talk about her memoir, Easy Beauty, which documents her global exploration and life with a disability. The two discuss misconceptions about motherhood, how Chloé dismantled the weight of society's judgment of those with disabilities, and her love of Roger Federer. Chloé also shares what her relationship with her son looks like today and how she's handled criticism from those who still choose to disrespect disabled mothers. Purchase on Amazon or Bookshop.Amazon: https://amzn.to/3RjwnrwBookshop: https://bit.ly/3cAkizxSubscribe to Zibby's weekly newsletter here.Purchase Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books merch here. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

[REBROADCAST FROM APRIL 12, 2022] Pulitzer Prize finalist Chloe Cooper Jones was born with sacral agenesis, a rare congenital condition which has affected both her experience of the world and the way people treat and consider her. In her memoir, Easy Beauty, she grapples with the struggles of living with her disability, but also the triumphs: the joys of motherhood, her travels around the world, and her quest to reconsider what we think of as "beautiful."  This segment was selected by producer Jordan Lauf for today's Producer Picks. 

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Philosophy professor and Pulitzer-nominated writer Chloé Cooper Jones's new memoir confronts a topic she's never written about before: her own experience of disability. She was born with sacral agenesis, a rare birth defect involving abnormal development of the spine. The condition causes her near-constant physical pain, affects the size and shape of her body and the way she walks. Chloé Cooper Jones says that even though it is the lens through which the world sees her, she had never wanted to write about her disability - until now. She speaks with Susie Ferguson about Easy Beauty from New York, where she lives with her husband and son.

In this episode, we'll explore books combating prejudice from a variety of genres. Everything from changing perceptions to dystopian futures is on the plate. Get ready to discover courageous, defiant characters who take their lives into their own hands. Today's selections are -The Silence that Binds Us by Joanna Ho, You Truly Assumed by Laila Sabreen, How to Find What You're Not Looking For by Veera Hiranandani, America is Not the Heart by Elaine Castillo, Internment, Hollow Fires, and Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know by Samira Ahmed, Easy Beauty by Chloe Cooper Jones, and A Heart In the Body In the World by Deb Caletti!

Your hosts Tessa and Annie talk with Chloé Cooper Jones about being her memoir and tour, her son, tennis, philosophy, and being a master of everything and nothing. Chloé's book: EASY BEAUTY Support the show

Episode Notes In episode 299, I sit down with the author of Easy Beauty, Chloe Cooper Jones, as she talks about her experience of disability with sacral agenesis.  We talk about her book of course, but also so many more facets of disability; motherhood, disability and the right to life, ableism.  Her memoir made me want to write more about my experiences as a disabled person, and I cannot wait for you to hear this interview. Enjoy!  You can pick up your copy of Easy Beauty and connect with Chloe at www.chloecooperjones.com  Apply now to be on Disability After Dark, This Shit Is Real or other fun episodes by e-mailing disabilityafterdarkpod@gmail.com or going to this link: https://calendly.com/disabilityafterdarkpod/disabilityafterdark  Episode Sponsors  Support Bump'n and donate so everyone can access self-pleasure by going to  www.getbumpn.com  Sign up to be a part of the free, virtual Parks Accessibility Conference taking place August 23-25th, 2022 by going to www.parksaccessibilityconference.ca   Clone-A-Willy or Clone-A-Pussy all your own and get 20% off sitewide by using coupon code DARKPOD at Checkout. www.cloneawillycom.  Get 15% off your next purchase of sex toys, books and DVDs by using Coupon code AFTERDARK at checkout when you shop at trans owned and operated sex shop Come As You Are www.comeasyouare.com

In conversation with Isaac Fitzgerald Freelance journalist Chloé Cooper Jones was a 2020 Pulitzer Prize finalist in feature writing for ''Fearing for His Life,'' a profile of the man who filmed NYPD officers killing Eric Garner. Also a philosophy professor, she has published articles in a wide array of periodicals, including The Believer, GQ, Vice, and New York magazine. She is the recipient of the 2020 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant and the 2021 Howard Foundation Grant from Brown University, and her work has been anthologized in The Best American Travel Writing and The Best American Sports Writing. A memoir about motherhood, disability, and underlying societal expectations, Easy Beauty follows Jones's painful literal and figurative worldwide journeys to reclaim spaces she'd been denied. Isaac Fitzgerald appears frequently on The Today Show and is the author of the bestselling children's book How to Be a Pirate as well as the co-author of Pen & Ink: Tattoos and the Stories Behind Them and Knives & Ink: Chefs and the Stories Behind Their Tattoos (winner of an IACP Award). His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, The Best American Nonrequired Reading, The Boston Globe and numerous other publications. His debut memoir, Dirtbag, Massachusetts, is forthcoming in July, 2022. He lives in Brooklyn. (recorded 5/12/2022)

Chloé Cooper Jones's memoir is made even more personal with her narration of the audiobook. Host Jo Reed and AudioFile's Michele Cobb discuss this exploration of the author's physical disability and her fight to thrive in spite of the constant judgment, pity, and prejudice of others. Jones offers a profoundly honest examination of society's standards of beauty and desirability and insightfully explores disability, parenthood, relationships, and more. Read the full review of the audiobook on AudioFile's website. Published by Simon & Schuster Audio. Find more audiobook recommendations at audiofilemagazine.com Support for AudioFile's Behind the Mic comes from PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE AUDIO, dedicated to producing top-quality fiction and nonfiction audiobooks written and read by the best in the business. Visit penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/audiofile now to start listening. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ruby Brunton reviews Easy Beauty by Chloé Cooper Jones published by Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand.

Writer, Speaker and Producer Dev Ramsawakh talks with Chloé Cooper Jones—Pulitzer Prize finalist, philosophy professor, Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant recipient—about Easy Beauty , her groundbreaking memoir about disability, motherhood, and a journey to far-flung places in search of a new way of seeing and being seen. “I am in a bar in Brooklyn, listening to two men, my friends, discuss whether my life is worth living.” So begins Chloé Cooper Jones's bold, revealing account of moving through the world in a body that looks different than most. Jones learned early on to factor “pain calculations” into every plan, every situation. Born with a rare congenital condition called sacral agenesis which affects both her stature and gait, her pain is physical. But there is also the pain of being judged and pitied for her appearance, of being dismissed as “less than.” The way she has been seen—or not seen—has informed her lens on the world her entire life. She resisted this reality by excelling academically and retreating to “the neutral room in her mind” until it passed. But after unexpectedly becoming a mother (in violation of unspoken social taboos about the disabled body), something in her shifts, and Jones sets off on a journey across the globe, reclaiming the spaces she'd been denied, and denied herself. From the bars and domestic spaces of her life in Brooklyn to sculpture gardens in Rome; from film festivals in Utah to a Beyoncé concert in Milan; from a tennis tournament in California to the Killing Fields of Phnom Penh, Jones weaves memory, observation, experience, and aesthetic philosophy to probe the myths underlying our standards of beauty and desirability, and interrogates her own complicity in upholding those myths.

“You know, beauty is such an interesting term. I think it's really important how vast and complex it is … we call people beautiful, I call my dog beautiful every day. I call food I eat beautiful, I call bitter, bitter coffee, beautiful, I call an idea beautiful. A mathematical concept can be beautiful, a sunset, the natural world, a performance, a song, certainly works of art, but … I've heard myself say, What a beautiful attempt, a failed attempt, but a beautiful or like a beautiful mistake, what a beautiful mistake that was, a beautiful error or a beautiful cutting remark even, so it's such an interesting term, because we can use it in so many ways.” Easy Beauty is Chloé Cooper Jones' first book, and it's an incredibly smart and provocative combination of memoir, travel essay and philosophical treatise on beauty and our experience with beauty, and it's out now. Chloé joins us on the show to talk about what beauty looks and feels like to her, how it feels to live in a body that people stare at (and touch without invitation), how we talk and think about disability, vulnerability and self-acceptance, and so much more with Poured Over's host, Miwa Messer. And we end the episode with a TBR Topoff segment featuring Margie and Marc.   Featured Books: Easy Beauty by Chloé Cooper Jones   Poured Over is produced and hosted by Miwa Messer. This episode was mixed by Chris Gillespie. Follow us here for new episodes Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional bonus episodes on Saturdays).   A full transcript of the show is available here.

Pulitzer Prize finalist Chloe Cooper Jones was born with sacral agenesis, a rare congenital condition which has affected both her experience of the world and the way people treat and consider her. In her memoir, Easy Beauty, she grapples with the struggles of living with her disability, but also the triumphs: the joys of motherhood, her travels around the world, and her quest to reconsider what we think of as "beautiful." 

Chloé Cooper Jones is a philosophy professor and freelance journalist who was a finalist for a 2020 Pulitzer Prize in Feature Writing. Her work has appeared in publications including GQ, The Verge, and The Believer, and has been selected for both The Best American Travel Writing and The Best American Sports Writing. She lives in Brooklyn. Her debut memoir is called Easy Beauty. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chloé Cooper Jones is a philosopher and journalist whose work has appeared in GQ, The Verge, The Believer and many other publications. Her new book is Easy Beauty. ”I literally didn't talk to anyone in my life about disability until I was, like, 30. Ever. Not my husband, not my friends, as little as possible to my own mother. I had this very bad idea that what I needed to do in every single social situation was wait until people could unsee my body…. And it was all in service of trying to be truly recognized or truly seen. And, of course, what was happening is I was involved in a complete act of self erasure because my body and my real self are related…. There is no real me without my physical self…. I did not think I was going to ever write about this, but once I started, it felt like I met myself for the first time.” Show notes: @CCooperJones chloecooperjones.com  Cooper Jones on Longform 00:00 Easy Beauty (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster • 2022) 01:00 "Fearing for His Life" (The Verge • Mar 2019) 02:00 "Contemplating Beauty in a Disabled Body" (New York Times Magazine • Mar 2022) 19:00 "Such Perfection" (The Believer • Jun 2019) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

March has come and gone, and we have lots to say about it! We're talking auntie life, Instagram detoxes, our 30s, sushi, depression, and more. Never a dull moment, people!⬇️SHOW NOTES⬇️ Intro:Welcome to Spare Time - where we endorse spending your free time however the fuck you want!Book Club - stay tuned for updates about our first Spare Time Book ep ~coming in April~. Speaking of April, our book is Easy Beauty by Chloe Cooper JonesHow did you spend your spare time this month:AA: being an auntie, family dinners, music (lizzy/holly), making the carolina gelen salmon, professional maskMM: turning 30, having guests in my home, meeting co-workers in personBest/Worst:Best MM: birthday lunch: Ekiben the Neighborhood Bird sandwich (ft. Rich As Fuck by Lil Wayne)Best AA: torched salmon sushi / the pancake songWorst MM: feeling depressed and having memory loss (~vulnerable~)Worst AA: none of my pants fit me lol / I need a brand new wardrobeSpare Time Rec:AA: Maren Morris new album Humble Quest / bring back the honeybarMM: @crispyegg420Culture / 3 Things You Need to Know:A - the slap heard round the world B - Taylor Swift backlash Where the Crawdads SingC - Joe Harding, who crafted the Don't Say Gay Bill in Florida, had his house destroyed by a tornado. I'm no expert but…seems like a sign from a wrathful Old Testament God.Look Ahead:AA: Whole food journey (so no croissants) MM: deleted instagram; digital wellness journey? Fitness journey???

If you spend 288 pages deep in the life of a disabled person, can that experience shift your concept of disability? Join Chloé Cooper Jones, journalist, Pulitzer nominee and author of the new memoir Easy Beauty, as she talks with Lucy Scholes about how beauty can create a powerful mental shift. They discuss the social and political act of making the disabled body visible, the meaning of staring and ask Lewis Hamilton to teach Chloé Formula 1 Racing.Chloé's recommendations: On the nightstand – The Coward by Jarred McGinnis and Staring by Rosemarie Garland-ThomsonOn your mind – Drive to Survive, the Formula One racing documentary. On the shelf – Gretel Ehrlich's The Solace of Open SpacesOn the pedestal – Harriet McBryde Johnson, a writer and disability activist. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Meaghan and Caroline met at a photo shoot 3 years ago. It was Caroline's first time in front of the lens and it was Meaghan's job to make her look as fabulous as possible. Lots has changed since then and now EVERYONE is in front of a lens, every single day. Here are some easy tips to look your best on that Zoom call.  Great ring light option: https://www.amazon.com/Conference-Lighting-Conferencing-Dimmable-Monitor/dp/B08K2TMGBF/ref=asc_df_B08K2TMGBF/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=475811286124&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=5617412328144314131&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=200511&hvtargid=pla-997031709063&psc=1