On the origin of the idea that criticizing women isn't feminist. It's this idea that through attaining an ecstatic state you reach a sort of union with God. This is the first book I've read that ever made me feel like I am knocking on the door of elderly (yes I'm well over 50). On how she connects the religious ecstatic tradition of her church with her later drug use. Refresh and try again. My favorite essay was the one about Tolentino's time on a reality tv show as a teenager, and my least favorite was the last essay about weddings, but I think each of those speaks to my personal interests more than objective quality. She is thorough and frenetic and goes in tangents and fully explores them including the history behind much of what she observes. I did enjoy the ones on feminism a little more, like the ones examining the way lodging any criticism at any woman becomes grounds for calls of sexism. I really admired the depth of thought here. [3.5] I can see why this collection has been received with such acclaim. She goes off on tangents and reading this became more of an exercise in perseverance than anything else. Unlike most convex mirrors, the HD's lens is designed with two convex focal points. Some of her NYer pieces were even better, after she was freed from needing to write in Internet witty speak all the time and could show other tricks and styles she had up her sleeve. Plus Tolentino writes indulgently and at length about things that don't matter as much to me (Reality TV, Ecstasy, Barre Ballet etc)…at least not as much as younger folks. And that was one of the first things that made me think I would not be religious ... for very long. The women I knew were so strong and ... domestic violence was endemic. So, for example, when Melania Trump went to go visit the kids at the border wearing that Zara jacket that said ["I REALLY DON'T CARE, DO U?"] I don't think there was a weak essay in here and I look forward to reading anything by Tolentino in the future. I know why this was one of my most anticipated reads for this year. I googled three different ways and all I found was references to this book. I think we saw it in the #MeToo movement, this idea that women's stories were important and to be given credence and to be centered became more of the default, which was incredible to see. I think that it's another thing that the Internet sort of exacerbates is this idea that ... it's really important to have everyone agree with you, that means something. In her new book of essays, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion, Tolentino writes about how social media shapes identity, public discourse and political engagement, particularly for millennials such as herself. The younger generations have learned to receive and process these amounts of information in ways that I simply don't. She has become something of a tribune for the millennial generation: funny and razor sharp, introspective and curious, she writes in a way that very often feels inspired. Sam Briger and Joel Wolfram produced and edited this interview for broadcast. As wealth continues to flow upward, as Americans are increasingly shut out of their own democracy, as political action is constrained into online spectacle, I have felt so many times that the choice of this era is to be destroyed or to morally compromise ourselves in order to be functional—to be wrecked, or to be functional for reasons that contribute to the wreck.”, Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Nonfiction (2019), THIS BOOK NEEDS AN ACCOMPANYING PLAYLIST (Jia please make this happen? Bridget Bentz, Molly Seavy-Nesper and Beth Novey adapted it for the Web. Whatever its true form, it's smoke and mirrors to me, and I couldn't wait to get out. I was devastated to have more power than the women around me, and I also felt so powerless, and I couldn't process it. Articulate, insightful, intelligent and informative. I was particularly interested in the essay about the UVA rape case and the one about uncritical feminism and how it can flatten discourse in really troubling ways. My sort of inherent desire to reach for that feeling persisted long after my actual sense of religion, or adherence to it, or belief in it, belief in God, even, after that went away. I would read the Gospels and think: These are books about economic redistribution and helping the hungry and the sick. The shear volume of information that comes at us daily is daunting. I'm 30. Often the front mirror of an infinity mirror is half-silvered (a so-called one way mirror), but this is not required to produce the effect. I've always been inclined to think about the world in terms of systems and our tiny, tiny place in them, but there it was the first time that I'd understood how tiny I was within this network of global power and economic history. She has become something of a tribune for the millennial generation: funny and razor sharp, introspective and curious, she writes in a way that very often feels inspired. I can understand the hype because of Tolentino's overall on-point-ness and refreshing honesty on thorny cultural topics, but diving into the actual writing, I couldn't help but shake the feeling that these were like outstanding AP English essays whipped out by a student who had been partying all night with basic friends but could effortlessly crank out the winning formula of criticism topped with literary reference and personal anecdote in the hours before class bega.

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