JIA TOLENTINO

Trick Mirror is out now! The coverage was wild. Buy it from your local bookstore, or from the Bad Place. There’s also an audiobook, which I narrated myself.

Jia Tolentino is a staff writer at the New Yorker and the author of the essay collection Trick Mirror. Formerly, she was the deputy editor at Jezebel and a contributing editor at the Hairpin. She grew up in Texas, went to University of Virginia, and got her MFA in fiction from the University of Michigan. She’s represented by Amy Williams. Her work has also appeared in the New York Times Magazine and Pitchfork, among other places. She lives in Brooklyn.

 

Music	Robyn Has What You Want, 2018 Lana Del Rey’s New Way of Seeing, 2017 ‘Marvin Gaye,’ 2016 Notes on 21st Century Mystic Carly Rae Jepsen, 2015 Taylor Swift Is Definitely In Her Zone, 2015 Why I Have to Be So Rude, 2014
Books	Ocean Vuong’s Life Sentences, 2019 What It Takes to Put Your Phone Away, 2019 Halle Butler’s “The New Me,” 2019 Where Millennials Come From, 2018 Ivanka Trump’s ‘The Trump Card,’ 2016
Internet	Please, My Wife, She’s Very Online, 2019 The Rage of the Incels, 2018 The Land of the Large Adult Son, 2017 Thomas the Tank Engine Is Fucked Up, 2017 The Worst Year Ever, Until Next Year, 2016
Feminism	How a Woman Becomes a Lake, 2018 Kavanaugh, Trump, & What Men Do For Other Men, 2018 The Rising Pressure of the #MeToo Backlash, 2018 How Men Like Weinstein Implicate Their Victims, 2017 How Empowerment Became Something to Buy, 2016 What About David Bowie & Lori Maddox?,  2016 No Offense, 2015
Features	Athleisure Time, 2019 Marlon James & the African ‘Game of Thrones’, 2018 The Vapors, 2018 The Important, Inappropriate Literary Man, 2016 A UVA Alum Goes Back to Rugby Road, 2015
Interviews	A Woman Who Got an Abortion at 32 Weeks, 2016 A Chat with a Man Who Had Sex With a Dolphin, 2015 Talking to William Finnegan About ‘Barbarian Days,’ 2015 Dionne Osborne, Drake’s Vocal Coach Extraordinaire, 2014
Personal	The Most American Thing, 2017 Learning to Make Lasagna in Kyrgyzstan, 2017 All the Greedy Young Abigail Fishers and Me, 2016 Letter of Recommendation: Cracker Barrel, 2016 Cheerleaders 4 Christ, 2015 The Beauty Bridge, 2014
TV	On Finally Watching ‘Girls,’ 2017 Shark Tank, 2015 What Made the OC Great, Bitch,  2013
Movies	Coco Is the Definitive Movie For This Moment, 2018 The Oscars Are Fucking Weird, 2018 Beauty and the Bestiality, 2017 Watching ‘Arrival’ After the Election, 2016 We Are Not Your Friends, 2015

If you are curious about something related to my work, I might’ve gotten into it at Longform or Catapult or Brooklyn Magazine or Mythos (where these photos, taken by the wonderful Elena Mudd, are from). Or it might be in this Elle profile, this SSENSE interview, this second Longform interview. If you are wondering if I think you should get an MFA, I say yes, if you get into a funded program that will allow you to treat the degree like a low-paying job where your job is to write whatever you want. If you’re wondering if I have any advice for aspiring writers, I talk about it at the Creative Independent, and also: read a ton, learn what type of chemistry you have with what subjects, figure out how to be very generous but very tough with yourself at the same time.

You can find me: 

• reading with Yiyun Li at the Princeton Asian American Studies Lecture Series on December 4 at 4:30 PM 

• interviewing Margaret Atwood at her 80th birthday celebration at the NYPL on December 11 at 7 PM

• talking to Mark Greif at Stanford on January 15 at 5:30 PM

For speaking engagements and similar inquiries, please contact Amy Williams. No brand partnerships or corporate gigs about how the future is female, it’s not my vibe.

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