Fresh Air · 2026-08-08 · 52 min · 8,502 words

Best Of: Jia Tolentino on plastic surgery & AI / ‘Beef’ creator Lee Sun Jin

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Listen to Where is Austin Tice from NPRs Embedded and BBC Radio 4 on the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts. From WHYY in Philadelphia, this is Fresh Air Weekend. I'm Tanya Mosley in Los Angeles. Today, New Yorker staff writer Gia Tolentino. She coined the term Instagram face.

Seven years later, we talk about how current beauty standards are changing our relationship to reality. It seems more explicitly anti-human right now than ever before. There seemed to be something that's dovetailing with the age of AI. Also, we talk with writer Lee Sungjin. He's the creator of the Netflix series Beef.

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