![]() ![]() It’s a collection of essays on trying to survive the 21st century that are so incisive and elegantly constructed that as I read, I found myself wanting to underline particularly beautiful sentences again and again, until every page was black with ink. Her first book, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion, expands on that theme. Tolentino came up on the women’s news sites the Hairpin and Jezebel and is now a staff writer for the New Yorker, where she takes a scalpel to concepts beloved of the Extremely Online, such as begging for celebrities to run you over with a truck and joking about Wife Guys. ![]() If you want to understand what it’s like to live your life on the internet right now, there are few writers better equipped to help you than Jia Tolentino. ![]()
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