One of many forms of widely shared self-delusion she cops to in Trick Mirror is the “fantasy” of non-complicity in a ludicrously unjust global economy, the belief “that I can make it out of here. Supple and incisive, Tolentino has a gift for unexpected intuitive turns and juxtapositions It would be easy to call this a context in which reflection, robbed of the requisite time and space, simply can’t exist, but Tolentino is one of several examples to the contrary she’s learned to reflect differently, and part of what her pieces reveal is that harsh, seductive, disorienting environment itself, as bleak and fragmented as it is glossy. And her work is marked by that environment – in which you must be swift, bold and flexible, playful but persuasive, willing to perform yourself close-up and ready to be attacked for it, constantly aware of how you’re seen, competing for elusive attention, preparing for immediate counterargument. Supple and incisive, with a gift for unexpected intuitive turns and juxtapositions, she was formed online, in the years she spent as an editor and writer for the Hairpin and Jezebel before becoming a New Yorker staff writer.
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