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Easy Beauty A Memoir

Chloé Cooper Jones

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Memoir or Autobiography

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The Ezra Klein Show

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The Ezra Klein Show

The hosts described it as a recent, lyrical work that explores many forms of beauty and how they affect disabled bodies and daily life.

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In her recent book, Easy Beauty, Jones explores beauty in its many, many forms.

— Episode: The Subtle Art of Appreciating ‘Difficul...

Episode: The Subtle Art of Appreciating ‘Difficult Beauty’

The hosts described it as a recent, lyrical work that explores many forms of beauty and how they affect disabled bodies and daily life.

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In her recent book, Easy Beauty, Jones explores beauty in its many, many forms.

We are, of course, talking about your book, Easy Beauty, a beautiful book, but also a lot of other ideas that I think reading this really lyrical, moving text would bring up with the reader.

We Can Do Hard Things

Podcast

We Can Do Hard Things

The book is a memoir about Chlo Cooper Jones's life as a woman with a physical disability and pain disorder. It discusses the "neutral room" as a strategy for managing pain and how it can also be used to avoid social pain. The book explores the challenges of being seen as different in a world that doesn't always understand or make space for disability.

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I don't think that it serves any of us to write books that are just so insular that they become objects of voyeurism, inviting people into voyeurism.

— Episode: 244. Stop Carrying Other People’s Pain w...

Episode: 244. Stop Carrying Other People’s Pain with Chloé...

The book is a memoir about Chlo Cooper Jones's life as a woman with a physical disability and pain disorder. It discusses the "neutral room" as a strategy for managing pain and how it can also be used to avoid social pain. The book explores the challenges of being seen as different in a world that doesn't always understand or make space for disability.

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I don't think that it serves any of us to write books that are just so insular that they become objects of voyeurism, inviting people into voyeurism.

Where do you go to escape the pain of reality?

I'm often in a situation where somebody is saying a cruel thing to me or a dismissive thing, and I'm taking on that hurt that they've located some visible flaw in me and my character when in fact, of course, they're only speaking from their own hurt.

You're always looking at the wrong hurt.

And it ends in a bar with another man asking me, how is it possible that your husband manages the burden of your body?

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