She went three steps deeper than my vague clouds of words, and pushed me to think deeper about what I believe as she reflects on feminism, the economy, power, and our generation in her series of essays. She was able to articulate concepts I had only felt clouds of words around, and an inability to articulate clearly. The initial impression of the author - as someone who produces the empty (or worse, harmful) content we find everywhere - misleads.Īs I read the book, I found myself scribbling notes. Yet, her observations of how forces larger and deeper than any of us shape our lives ring true and profound and insightful. At a glance, Tolentino is a beautiful, young, well-educated, talented, socially aware, immaculately-presented-on-social-media writer who came of age in traditional environments, like churches and Greek life, and now writes for the New Yorker. What makes Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino different is that it seemingly spouts from the $4 oat milk latte yuppie urban millennial world, and this is because of the first impressions of the author herself.
Those writers are the type that turn their noses up at an obnoxiously colorful Aspen Ideas Festival backpack and view The New Yorker tote bag that comes with an online subscription as a gesture of performative intellectualism. Most cultural critiques I read come from niche socialist papers, from publications by disillusioned and rightfully angsty Ivy League alums, or from sources that I consider leftist, not liberal.
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