Bibliograph

Trick mirror, reflections on self-delusion, Jia Tolentino

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Label

Trick mirror, reflections on self-delusion, Jia Tolentino

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [297]-303)

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Index

no index present

Literary Form

essays

Main title

Trick mirror

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1088603389

Responsibility statement

Jia Tolentino

Sub title

reflections on self-delusion

Summary

A writer at The New Yorker examines the fractures at the center of contemporary culture. 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; and the punitive dream of optimization, which insists that everything, including our bodies, should become more efficient and beautiful until we die

Table Of Contents

The I in internet -- Reality TV me -- Always be optimizing -- Pure heroines -- Ecstasy -- The story of a generation in seven scams -- We come from old Virginia -- The cult of the difficult woman -- I thee dread

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