![]() Her voice here is fully developed: She writes with an inimitable mix of force, lyricism and internet-honed humor. ![]() Now a staff writer at The New Yorker, Tolentino has made her own foray into self-study in her absorbing first book, “Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion.” The book is a collection of nine original essays, some of which have their roots in writing she’s done for The New Yorker each is a mix of reporting, research and personal history. “I loved watching people try to figure out if they had something to say.” “I am moved by the negotiation of vulnerability,” she wrote. Still, Tolentino, who once edited this kind of writing for The Hairpin and Jezebel, found herself occasionally nostalgic for the authorial voices that developed during the personal essay’s heyday. ![]() But after the 2016 presidential election, such pieces started to seem petty, self-indulgent, naïve. Five years ago, readers salivated over “it happened to me” essays posted daily on women’s websites. “The personal is no longer political in quite the same way that it was,” she wrote in an essay for The New Yorker’s website. In May 2017, Jia Tolentino declared the personal essay dead. TRICK MIRROR Reflections on Self-Delusion By Jia Tolentino ![]()
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