Looking Like the Real Thing in Scott Guild’s “Plastic” – Chicago Review of Books

Looking Like the Real Thing in Scott Guild’s “Plastic” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] First, I think we need to get Barbenheimer out of the way. I very much doubt that Scott Guild intended Plastic, his debut novel about life-sized plastic figurines and the nuclear Armageddon that threatens them, to come so close on the heels of Greta Gerwig’s and Christopher Nolan’s films. It’s a fascinating accident, though: … Read more

Traversing Plastic Surgery’s Choppy Waters in “Pilgrims 2.0” – Chicago Review of Books

Traversing Plastic Surgery’s Choppy Waters in “Pilgrims 2.0” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] Writers searching for a subject ripe with juicy satirical possibilities will find a ready friend in plastic surgery. It’s a fleshy-flashy-multibillion-dollar industry which profits off, depending upon whom you ask, either mankind’s lofty desire for perfection or its vainest impulses. And just like every field, it seems, which stirs in sensitive people a sense … Read more