Assuming that society operates on the same belief-what do you think we’re being transformed into, writ large?Ĭhloé Cooper Jones: I think that what’s important about this idea that beauty is transformative is that there is a threshold, in a certain sense, in which beauty can be transformative, and in a way that I would associate with positive growth.
Wynter K Miller: One of the theses underlying Easy Beauty is the belief that proximity to beauty can be transformative for the individual. Throughout, it delivers the story of a woman interested in interrogating herself and, by extension, everyone and everything else.Ĭhloé Cooper Jones and I connected via Zoom to talk about beauty, transformation, and the art of being fully present-all timeless topics covered thoughtfully in Easy Beauty. The narrative follows Jones into bars and Beyoncé concerts, on international trips and neighborhood walks in Brooklyn. Jones’ story captures the experience of moving through the world in a body that others struggle to understand the perspective shifts that accompany parenthood the rules and limitations we accept from others and internalize for ourselves. Disability is one of the things it’s about-but realistically, it is about much more.
Easy Beauty, too, is a memoir impervious to categorization. She was born with a rare congenital condition that causes acute physical pain and manifests visually as a disability-but Jones has not written, until recently, about either chronic pain or disability. Formally, she is trained as a philosopher-but her work as a freelance journalist covering everything from culture and film to travel and tennis earned her a Pulitzer Prize in 2020. Jones is the kind of writer who defies boxes.
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