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Podcast: Peculiar Book Club Podcast
Episode: This episode will be a real Beauty with Zara Stone and Killer Looks
Description: How much do looks really matter? In society, whether we like it or not, how we look affects how we are treatedâand even what opportunities we might have in life. A one-time New York prison commissioner, Henry Solomon, once stated that âphysical defectsâŚmight conduce to crimeâ because a man with a poor physical appearance would have an easier time stealing a dollar than getting hired to earn one. That outlook wasnât new then, and it hasnât really gone away. In Zara Stoneâs amazing book KILLER LOOKS, she writes that âpeople have instinctively understood the societal benefit...