Hope Reese: You write in the introduction that you suspect you’re fooling yourself. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. I spoke with Tolentino about her nine-essay collection on the phone while she was in New York City, ahead of her book launch. Tolentino, formerly a Jezebel editor and currently a staff writer at The New Yorker, is skeptical of the structural forces that compel us to craft a perfect image of ourselves, and Trick Mirror examines the implications of our many modern façades. Boys: Puerto Rico - and uses them as a lens to explore the blurry line between what is real and what we present to our audience, regardless of whether we are journalists, actors, or Instagrammers. Should we trust what we think we know? That question lies at the heart of Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion, critic Jia Tolentino’s debut essay collection, in which she draws on her life experiences - from being raised in a Texas megachurch to starring on the teen reality-TV show Girls v. Hope Reese | Longreads | August 2019 | 10 minutes (2,578 words) Join Longreads and help us to support more writers.
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