Hello, welcome to the Longform Podcast. I'm Max Linsky. I am kind of losing my voice. I'm

here with my two co-hosts, Aaron Lammer, Evan Ratliffe, gentlemen. Hello. It's sick week

on the Longform Podcast. Brought to you by COVID. My main COVID symptom is that I've lost

my voice. Although, every time I lose my voice like this, I kind of wish it was always like

this. It's a nice, sultry sound. I'll give you that. You sound kind of like me when you're

sick, I feel. Yeah. Well, you know, you have a great voice, man. Both of you guys have great

voices, unlike me. Who was on the podcast this week? This week, I talked to Chloe Cooper Jones

and Chloe has a new book out. It just came out yesterday. It's called Easy Beauty. It is

a memoir and it is a memoir about her life in many, many respects, including what it is

like to move through the world in a disabled body and how she thinks about that identity

and how the way that she thinks about that identity has changed over the years and particularly

over the last couple of years when she became a parent. Chloe is a philosopher. She became

a journalist. She started by writing about tennis. She got nominated for a Pulitzer for

a feature she did for the verge. But really, we spent the whole time talking about this book

and the way that it changed how she thinks about herself and how she thinks about the world.

And I will tell you guys, this is a bit of a spoiler alert. There are multiple moments

in this interview where actually I was rendered speechless where she sets up things and

like my slow ass brain just didn't know quite how to respond. So it's a good one. Now I'm

excited to hear it. I'm rendered speechless by this introduction and that I can't think of anything

to say and have not spoken for approximately seven days. But I would be in remiss if I did not

mention that this show is produced in partnership with Vox Media to help us make it thanks to them.

And now here's Max with Chloe Cooper Jones.

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