'Trick Mirror' Finds Hope That Little Truths Will Emerge Amid Absurdities
There's an undeniable catharsis in seeing such a great writer, The New Yorker's Jia Tolentino, lucidly communicate the conditions of our most ludicrous forms of misery in her essay collection.
What's worth writing about at a time in history where both everything and nothing seems worthy of our attention? Anything, argues Jia Tolentino.
Tolentino is the author of the phenomenal essay collection She rose to prominence as the deputy editor of a place where she helped redefine what feminist discourse looks like on the internet. was then owned by the media group known for a kind of gonzo journalism that, since its closure, we've seen less of as the idea of monetizing anything subversive on the internet feels increasingly impossible. Inwith the horse from a Taylor Swift music video, but it also might mean a implicating herself in a story of generational class privilege.
