Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
Published by Penguin Random House Audio
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About this audiobook
A breakout writer at The New Yorker examines the fractures at the center of contemporary culture with verve, deftness, and intellectual ferocity — for listeners who’ve wondered what Susan Sontag would have been like if she had brain damage from the internet.
Jia Tolentino is a peerless voice of her generation, tackling the conflicts, contradictions, and sea changes that define us and our time. Now, in this dazzling collection of nine entirely original essays, written with a rare combination of give and sharpness, wit and fearlessness, she delves into the forces that warp our vision, demonstrating an unparalleled stylistic potency and critical dexterity.
Trick Mirror is an enlightening, unforgettable trip through the river of self-delusion that surges just beneath the surface of our lives. This is an audiobook about the incentives that shape us and about how hard it is to see ourselves clearly through a culture that revolves around the self. In each essay, Tolentino writes about a cultural prism: the rise of the nightmare social internet; the advent of scamming as the definitive millennial ethos; the literary heroine’s journey from brave to blank to bitter; the punitive dream of optimization, which insists that everything, including our bodies, should become more efficient and beautiful until we die. Gleaming with Tolentino’s sense of humor and capacity to elucidate the impossibly complex in an instant, and marked by her desire to treat the listener with profound honesty, Trick Mirror is an instant classic of the worst decade yet.
Editor's Note
Editor’s pick…
Even before her debut collection of essays came out, Jia Tolentino had been earning comparisons to Joan Didion; an apt comparison, given both writers' simultaneous stature as brilliant cultural critics and icons of a certain type of intelligentsia-chic. On that front, there are few surprises in “Trick Mirror”: the author’s fascinations with the self in the age of the Internet, with seeking depth in a world of simple pleasures, and with the expert doling out of high-low cultural references, are all on display in these essays.
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Reviews for Trick Mirror
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Nice to hear that after 6 hours she concluded that maybe we deceive ourselves into or out of marriage because of personal issues. Didn’t really get anything insightful. Every topic was analyzed to wishy washy oblivion.