TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tolentino,Jia
TI  - Trick mirror: reflections on self-delusion 
SN  - 9780525510543
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Random House
KW  - Tolentino, Jia.
KW  - Social media
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Generation Y
KW  - Self-doubt
KW  - United States
KW  - Civilization
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Essays
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages [297]-303); The I in internet -- Reality TV me -- Always be optimizing -- Pure heroines -- Ecstasy -- The story of a generation in seven scams -- We come from old Virginia -- The cult of the difficult woman -- I thee dread
N2  - A writer at The New Yorker examines the fractures at the center of contemporary culture. In each essay, Tolentino writes about a cultural prism: the rise of the nightmare social internet; the advent of scamming as the definitive millennial ethos; the literary heroine's journey from brave to blank to bitter; and the punitive dream of optimization, which insists that everything, including our bodies, should become more efficient and beautiful until we die
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