Trick Mirror cover art. She deftly lays out an up-to-the-minute analysis of contemporary life without making the reader feel claustrophobic. 71. 99% Upvoted. Jia Tolentino Trick Mirror (Random House, 2019) Jia Tolentino doesn’t seem to write essays so much as drop them, like hit albums, or bombs. My girlfriends and I are in our early 30s.
She was a contributing editor at The Hairpin and the deputy editor at Jezebel.
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion, by Jia Tolentino, Random House, RRP$26/Fourth Estate, RRP£14.99, 320 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FTBooksCafe . Ha ha! save hide report. They land in eager inboxes, Twitter feeds, and group texts, where they quickly crystallize into new entries on the contemporary culture syllabus. OUT NOW!
From the New Yorker’s brightest young talent comes a scintillating collection of essays that masterfully map the millennial mindset against the increasing disorientation of modern life.Wise, witty and blisteringly perceptive, Trick Mirror is a hugely important contribution to the ongoing socio-political debate. Jia Tolentino is a staff writer at The New Yorker. Show More ... London Review of Books, 28 Little Russell Street London, WC1A 2HN letters@lrb.co.uk
She has previously worked as deputy editor of Jezebel and a contributing editor at The Hairpin. Jia Tolentino is a staff writer at The New Yorker. Thank you to Random House Publishing Group for providing me with an advance review copy in exchange for an honest review. Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino. But Tolentino is reflecting quickly and efficiently. 6 comments. I n chronological order, starting with her debut, Sleepwalking, which she wrote as a student at Brown and published in 1982 when she was 23, the page counts of Meg Wolitzer’s novels are: 272, 294, 352, 213, 224, 219, 307, 383, 304, 560, 464.A couple of young adult novels, published in 2011 and 2014, hit 304 and 272 respectively. She received her MFA in fiction from the University of Michigan. 99% Upvoted. Book Review: Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino.
Does this matter?
She is a staff writer for The New Yorker. Ignoring the inaccurate ‘suddenly’, the sentiment is correct. 6 comments. The Los Angeles Review of Books is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Posted by 11 days ago. save hide report. Tolentino’s debut collection of nine essays, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion, comes at a crucial point where the internet chimera of identity, culture, and politics has mutated beyond recognition.Where many of us recoil in terror, Tolentino buckles up and enters the fray ... Tolentino’s writing is not just deft and insightful—it’s thrilling.