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Jia Angeli Carla Tolentino (born 1988) is an American writer and editor. A staff writer for The New Yorker, she previously worked as deputy editor of Jezebel and a contributing editor at The Hairpin. Her writing has also appeared in The New York Times Magazine and Pitchfork. In 2019, her collected essays were published as Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion. Early life and education Tolentino was born in Toronto, Ontario, to parents from the Philippines. When she was four, her family moved to Houston, Texas, where she grew up in a Southern Baptist community. Tolentino attended an evangelical megachurch and a small Christian private school. Tolentino started elementary school early and graduated from high school as her class salutatorian.At the age of 15, she participated in the game show Girls v. Boys in Puerto Rico.In 2005, Tolentino enrolled at the University of Virginia as a Jefferson Scholar, studying English, joining the Pi Beta Phi sorority, and participating in an a cappella group called The Virginia Belles. After graduating from UVA in 2009, Tolentino spent a year as a Peace Corps volunteer in Kyrgyzstan. Tolentino earned an MFA from the University of Michigan. Career Tolentino began writing for The Hairpin in 2013, hired by then-editor-in-chief Emma Carmichael. In 2014, Tolentino and Carmichael both moved to Jezebel, where Tolentino worked for two years before joining The New Yorker.Tolentino's writing has won accolades across genres. Flavorwire called her a "go-to music source," while her first short story won the fall 2012 Raymond Carver Short Fiction Contest and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She has also garnered favorable attention for essays on topics such as race in publishing, marriage, abortion, and notions of female empowerment, as well as for her no-pulled-punches music criticism. The A.V. Club admired "Tolentino's sick burns on Charlie Puth" and Studio 360 observed that even in the near-universal panning of Magic!'s song "Rude", "no criticism has been quite as cutting as Jia Tolentino's." Tolentino has reported extensively on the #MeToo movement.In 2017, Tolentino was named in the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in the media category.On August 6, 2019, Tolentino published a collection of essays entitled Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion. It made its debut on The New York Times Bestseller List on August 25, coming in at #2 on the Combined Print & E-Book Non-fiction list. In a review for The New York Times, Maggie Doherty wrote: "Tolentino’s earnest ambivalence, expressed often throughout the book, is characteristic of millennial life-writing, and it can be contrasted with boomer self-satisfaction and Gen X disaffection in the same genre." Slate columnist Laura Miller wrote in her review of the book, "Tolentino is a classical essayist along the lines of Montaigne, threading her way on the page toward an understanding of what she thinks and feels about life, the world, and herself." Lauren Oyler's negative review of Trick Mirror in the London Review of Books, "skewer[ed] the essays’ shallowness and prose quality," though Tolentino reacted positively to the review, calling it a "cleansing, illuminating experience to be read with such open disgust!"Her 2021 reporting on the conservatorship of Britney Spears, co-authored with Ronan Farrow, attracted international attention, with the piece being described as "blistering" by Tyler Aquilina in Entertainment Weekly and as a "journalistic reference text on Britney Spears" by Dirk Peitz in Die Zeit.In January 2023, Tolentino made a cameo in the HBO Max show Gossip Girl (2021). Personal life Tolentino met her partner, Andrew Daley, an architect, while they were students at UVA. In the essay "I Thee Dread" in her book Trick Mirror, Tolentino writes at length about her ambivalence toward marriage. References External links Official website Jia Tolentino at The New Yorker Interview with Jia Tolentino at Catapult.co All the Greedy Young Abigail Fishers and Me, Jezebel, June 28, 2016.. Discover the Jia Tolentino popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Jia Tolentino books.

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  • Hanging Out synopsis, comments

    Hanging Out

    Sheila Liming

    "Hide your phone, stop hustling for a second, and read this passionate argument for the importance of unstructured predigital hang." People Loneliness is an epidemic; it feels ha...

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    Creep

    Myriam Gurba

    “Quite simply one of the best books of the decade.” Los Angeles Review of Books “The mother of intersectional Latinx identity.” Cosmopolitan “Essential reading, a California clas...

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    The Age of Innocence

    Edith Wharton

    Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, The Age of Innocence is an elegant, masterful portrait of desire and betrayal in old New Yorknow with a new introduction from acclaimed author Co...

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    Selling the Dream

    Jane Marie

    Peabody and Emmy Award–winning journalist Jane Marie expands on her popular podcast The Dream to expose the scourge of multilevel marketing schemes and how they have profited off t...

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    Between the Lines

    Uli Beutter Cohen

    From the acclaimed creator of Subway Book Review, Between the Lines gloriously takes to the underground and showcases in over 170 interviews what moves us forwarda thrilling ride a...

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    Some of My Best Friends

    Tajja Isen

    A fearless, “funny, poignant, and supersmart” (Ms. magazine) essay collection about race, justice, and the limits of good intentions.In this “inspiring, determined work of personal...

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    A River Passes By Here

    Caroline Eaton Tracey

    RUNNERUP OF THE 2020 BODLEY HEAD / FINANCIAL TIMES ESSAY PRIZE'Just before the COVID19 quarantine, I moved into my girlfriend's apartment, a renovated garage in a forgotten triangl...

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    The Space Between

    Zara Mcdonald & Michelle Andrews

    There’s this weird gap in life that’s fuelled by cheap tacos and even cheaper tequila – also known as our twenties. It’s a specific limbo between being a teenager and a Proper Adul...

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    The Age of Magical Overthinking

    Amanda Montell

    From the bestselling author of Cultish and host of the podcast Sounds Like a Cult, a delicious blend of cultural criticism and personal narrative that explores our cognitive biases...

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    The House of Mirth

    Edith Wharton

    A literary sensation when it was published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1905, The House of Mirth quickly established Edith Wharton as the most important American woman of letters ...

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    Trick Mirror

    Jia Tolentino

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “From The New Yorker’s beloved cultural critic comes a bold, unflinching collection of essays about selfdeception, examining everything from sc...

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    The Cockroach and I

    Saranya Subramanian

    RUNNERUP OF THE 2020 BODLEY HEAD / FINANCIAL TIMES ESSAY PRIZE'It's an exhausting, futile battle, really. Every night, the same smug cockroach squeezes herself out of my bathroom d...

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    Three Women

    Lisa Taddeo

    SOON TO BE A SERIES ON STARZ STARRING SHAILENE WOODLEY BETTY GILPIN DeWANDA WISE GABRIELLE CREEVY with BLAIR UNDERWOOD “Staggeringly intimate...Groundbreaking.” Entertainment W...

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    The Parenthood Dilemma

    Gina Rushton

    “Rushton's work is generous, thoughtful, and honest, taking care neither to romanticize nor to disparage the choice to become a parent.” Jenny Hamilton, Booklist (starred review)A ...

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    Sad Happens

    Brandon Stosuy

    A beautifullyillustrated, celebratory anthology exploring sadnessand the transformative power of tears.When was the last time you cried? Was it because you were sad? Or happy? Over...

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    My First Popsicle

    Zosia Mamet

    A warm and relateable collection of essays exploring the memories we associate with different meals in our lives, from a spectrum of talented creatorsWhat is your most poignant mem...

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    Listening in the Dark

    Amber Tamblyn

    Amber Tamblyn, Jessica Valenti, Lidia Yuknavitch, Jia Tolentino, Samantha Irby, Meredith Talusan, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley, Amy Poehler, America Ferrera, Ada Limón, ...

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    The Year of Magical Thinking

    Joan Didion

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER  NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER From one of America’s iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion that explores an intensely persona...

  • The Age of Innocence synopsis, comments

    The Age of Innocence

    Edith Wharton

    Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, The Age of Innocence is an elegant, masterful portrait of desire and betrayal in old New Yorknow with a new introduction from acclaimed author Co...