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Nose Jobs and Reality TV

1 tim 12 min•22 maj 2026

A double header show on beauty, class, surgical intervention, media manipulation, and assimilation American style. First Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher speak with debut novelist Sarah Wang about her book, New Skin, a mother-daughter story rendered in the hallucinatory glare of Los Angeles and its unrepentant standard for perfection. It follows Linli Feng, who returns home to the San Gabriel Valley to help her mother, Fanny, after yet another botched plastic surgery. Linli ends up trapped, supporting Fanny as she accepts a role on the reality show, America's Beauty Extreme. Next Kate Wolf is joined by MJ Corey to discuss the real-life reality empire of America's most famous family. Corey's book, Dekonstructing the Kardashians: A New Media Manifesto unpacks almost two decades of the Kardashian clan via postmodern theory, examining how they have transformed not only television and the internet, but American culture at large.

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