Nose Jobs and Other Necessary Luxuries

Emerging Writer Series

Every two weeks or so I am publishing an essay from an emerging writer. This week, we are publishing “Nose Jobs and Other Necessary Luxuries” by Zoe Yu. Zoe is a junior at Harvard College. Her work appears in The New York Times, Slate, and CNN, and she writes a column for The Boston Globe. She hates driving but loves having aux. This is her first publis…