Writer Jia Tolentino (The New Yorker) became a literary sensation in 2019 upon the release of her best-selling essay collection, Trick Mirror: Reflections in Delusion). She joins us this week to ring in 2025.
We start by discussing the erosion of privacy online (10:18), he potentially forthcoming TikTok ban (12:20), and how she circumvented self-surveillance technology in her Hidden Pregnancy Experiment) for The New Yorker (14:20). Then, we unpack how data is monetized online (18:00), as depicted in an unsettling scene from Succession (20:50), the harmful effects of screen time on children (25:00), and her writerly upbringing in Houston (30:54).
On the back-half, Jia recounts a formative summer in Venice (40:30), her subsequent decade working at The Hairpin and Jezebel (49:00), the trad wife phenomenon (53:40), how she swings between pessimism and optimism (1:10:40), and why writing still retains the power to liberate (1:15:20).
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