Author Sarah Wang Discusses Her Novel New Skin, in Conversation With Kate Wolf

Join author Sarah Wang and Kate Wolf to discuss Wang’s acclaimed novel New Skin. 

New Skin tells the scalding, darkly humorous story of a mother and daughter trapped in a toxic cycle of love and resentment, plastic surgery addiction and the false promise of the American Dream. When Linli Feng returns home to care for her estranged mother after another botched procedure, she is drawn into the dangerous world of black-market beauty treatments and exploitative reality television, forcing both women to confront the damage that obsession and survival have inflicted on their lives. New Skin is available from the Los Angeles Public Library as a print book and as an e-audiobook.

Sarah Wang has written for The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper’s Bazaar, The Nation, and the London Review of Books. Wang is a MacDowell Fellow, a Center for Fiction Emerging Writer Fellow, the winner of a Barbara Deming Award, and a finalist for the Nelson Algren Award. She teaches creative writing at Barnard College. 

Kate Wolf is a writer and one of the founding editors of the Los Angeles Review of Books, where she’s currently editor at large and co-host and producer of its weekly podcast, the LARB Radio Hour. Her work has appeared in exhibition catalogs, anthologies, and publications including Bidoun, Bookforum, Art in America, Momus, The Nation, n+1, and Frieze, and co-programs a micro-cinema in Highland Park called Veggie Cloud. She recently completed her first novel.