![]() ![]() In Trick Mirror, Tolentino blends reporting and research with her own experiences-as a 16-year-old reality television contestant, a lover of high-priced barre workouts or a frequent wedding guest who grapples with her own disinterest in marriage to her longtime partner, architect Andrew Daley (Arch ’07). “That my career is possible in large part because of the way the internet collapses identity, opinion and action-and that I, as a writer whose work is mostly critical and often written in first person, have some inherent stake in justifying the dubious practice of spending all day trying to figure out what you think.” ![]() ![]() “I don’t know what to do with the fact that I myself continue to benefit from all this,” Tolentino writes. ![]() Posting our convictions on social media has become easier than doing anything about them, she writes in one essay called “The I in the Internet.” But Tolentino, a New Yorker staff writer, points to her own complicity in the modern-day life and lies that she covers in her book, too. ![]()
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