Jia Tolentino

American writer and editor · Canada · Journalists · Born 1988 · age 37

Jia Tolentino is read about 152 times a day, in 10 languages.

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Jia Angeli Carla Tolentino is a Canadian-American writer and editor. A staff writer for The New Yorker, she previously worked as deputy editor of Jezebel and a contributing editor at The Hairpin. Her writing has also appeared in The New York Times Magazine and Pitchfork.

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…I act like a hopeful person, but I think that hope is based on having zero expectations. I’ve never expected anything out of life, so I’ve never been disappointed…
2019, On whether she considers herself hopeful in “Jia Tolentino: What It’s Like Being the Most Talked About Millennial Writer” in AnOther (2019, Own words
…there are individual ways that we work our way through all of these systems that are corrosive and inescapable.
On why her book Trick Mirror offers no solutions in “Jia Tolentino: What It’s Like Being the Most Talked About Millennial Writer” in, Own words
I like to write about modern instincts that are in some way good. And also in some way dangerous.
On being drawn to the small domestic truths of life in “Jia Tolentino: ‘I like to write about instincts that are in some way good and in, Own words