Beautiful Views: Nora Burkey

By TNB Nonfiction

Interview

Nora Burkey is an emerging writer featured in TNB Books’ new collection, The Beautiful Anthology. She currently teaches English in Korea. Burkey, who wrote a politically charged, feminist essay about the beauty of the poor students in Cambodia, answers a few questions:

 

What is the most beautiful meal (or food)?

A Burmese tea leaf salad from Irawaddi Restaurant on Wat Bo Road in Siem Reap, Cambodia.

 

What is not beautiful to you?

Beautifully groomed white collar criminals, especially those who aren’t even technically breaking the law.

 

What is wrong with what society currently considers beautiful?

Society creates what is ugly to sell beauty products. If beauty reps want to sell armpit-fat creams, suddenly everyone thinks their armpits are fat in a way they’ve never noticed before.

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TNB Nonfiction features some of the web's best essays, excerpts of up-and-coming books, self-interviews, profiles, and humor from a wide range of authors. Past and future writers include Emily Rapp, Mira Bartók, Nick Flynn and Melissa Febos, among many others.  Our editorial team includes:  SETH FISCHER is the Nonfiction Editor. His work has appeared in Guernica, Joyland, Best Sex Writing, and elsewhere, and he was the first Sunday editor at The Rumpus. His nonfiction was selected as notable in The Best American Essays, and he has been awarded fellowships by Jentel, the Ucross Foundation, Lambda Literary, and elsewhere. He is also a developmental editor of nonfiction and fiction, and he teaches at Antioch University Los Angeles, UCLA-Extension, and Writing Workshops Los Angeles.

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