A Must-Read Book By One of Our Sharpest Contemporary Voices
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino If you read The New Yorker with any kind of frequency, you’ve probably read a Jia Tolentino piece. I recommend “Elizabeth Gilbert’s Latest Epiphanies” as an amuse-bouche of her style and tone (it’s also just plain juicy). Beyond The New Yorker, Tolentino is often called-upon to deliver her thoughts on the zeitgeist because she so deftly articulates the collective vibes into punchy nuggets of truth. This is why I snatched up her debut collection when it first published in 2019, and why it became a bestseller and one of Barack Obama’s favorite books of that year. Thanks(?) to this book, I will always look at Lululemon leggings and indoor group workout classes with a faint, possibly unfair, hint of revulsion. Beyond this one squeamish scenario, Tolentino writes about big, meaty topics like identity in the age of the internet, reality television with which she has an intimate and personal connection that took me by surprise, and more of-the-moment topics still relevant today in nine exquisitely open and …
