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Jia Tolentino is a staff writer at The New Yorker. She grew up in Texas, attended the University of Virginia, and served in Kyrgyzstan in the Peace Corps. She received her MFA in fiction from the University of Michigan. She was a contributing editor at The Hairpin and the deputy editor at Jezebel. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, Time, Grantland, Slate, Pitchfork, Bon Appétit, Spin, and Fader. She lives in Brooklyn.

‘A masterclass in how to think about the world’ Samantha Irby ‘Thoroughly enjoyable’ Vogue ‘There is one guarantee with this book: it will make you stop and think … Tolentino’s writing will leave you feeling a bit more humble, and a bit more intelligent’ Independent‘Hardcore modern intellectualism with a side of memes’ Daily Telegraph‘A page-turning holiday read’ Elle‘An astute and exciting new voice’ Financial Times (Books of the Year)‘A bold and playful collection from a hugely talented writer’ Guardian‘The best young essayist at work in the United States’ Rebecca Solnit‘The millennial Susan Sontag, a brilliant voice in cultural criticism. . . She remains engaged with her subjects even as she scratches her head and wonders why we do what we do. Even better: She writes like a dream’ Washington Post ‘Jia Tolentino could be the Joan Didion of our time’ Vulture ‘She is the kind of writer who is talked about with a mixture of rapturous admiration and pained envy … dazzling’ New Statesman ‘The Book of the Moment’ Vice ‘Magnificent … her position as the pre-eminent genius among the millennial intellectuals is self-assured’ The Times‘This is electrifying, vital writing’ Louise O’Neill