Trick Mirror
Descriere
Trick Mirror is an enlightening, unforgettable trip through the river of self-delusion that surges just beneath the surface of our lives. This is a book about the incentives that shape us, and about how hard it is to see ourselves clearly through a culture that revolves around the self. In each essay, Tolentino writes about a cultural prism: the rise of the nightmare social internet; the advent of scamming as the definitive millennial ethos; the literary heroine’s journey from brave to blank to bitter; the punitive dream of optimization, which insists that everything, including our bodies, should become more efficient and beautiful until we die. Gleaming with Tolentino’s sense of humor and capacity to elucidate the impossibly complex in an instant, and marked by her desire to treat the reader with profound honesty, Trick Mirror is an instant classic of the worst decade yet.
Despre autor
Jia Angeli Carla Tolentino este o scriitoare și editoare canadiano-americană. Scriitoare de staff pentru The New Yorker, a lucrat anterior ca redactor-șef adjunct pentru Jezebel și redactor-contribuitor pentru The Hairpin. Scrierile ei au apărut și în The New York Times Magazine și Pitchfork. În 2019, eseurile sale au fost publicate într-o colecție intitulată Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion.
