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Episode 354: Jia Tolentino

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Education, Arts, Books, News

4.71.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2019

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Jia Tolentino is a staff writer at the New Yorker and the author of the essay collection Trick Mirror: Reflections of Self-Delusion. “I feel a lot of useful guilt solidifying my own advantages at a time when the ground people stand on is being ripped away. And I feel a lot of emotional anxiety about the systems that connect us - about the things that make my life more convenient and make other people’s lives worse. It’s the reality of knowing that ten years from now, when there are millions of more climate refugees, that you’ll be okay. It makes me feel so crazy and lucky and intent on doing something with being alive.” Thanks to MailChimp, Time Sensitive, Substack, and Pitt Writers for sponsoring this week's episode. @jiatolentino Tolentino on Longform [01:47] Trick Mirror: Reflections of Self-Delusion (Random House • 2019) [02:15] Jia’s archive at the New Yorker [02:18] Longform Podcast #183: Jia Tolentino [09:08] “The Promise of Vaping and the Rise of Juul” (New Yorker • 2018) [11:31] “Gloria Allred’s Crusade” (New Yorker • 2017) [17:37] “Please, My Wife, She’s Very Online” (New Yorker • 2019) [20:49] “A Chat with Malcolm Brenner, Man Famous for Having Sex with a Dolphin” (Jezebel • 2015) [21:03] “Interview With a Woman Who Recently Had an Abortion at 32 Weeks” (Jezebel • 2016) [26:20] Panel with Tolentino, Nussbaum, Holmes, and Brodesser-Akner [27:50] “The Land of the Large Adult Son” (New Yorker • 2017) [33:22] “Losing Religion and Finding Ecstasy in Houston” (New Yorker • 2019) [36:10] “A Quick Chat With a Guy at Lolla Wearing a 'Rape Your Face' T-Shirt” (Jezebel • 2015) [40:22] “Athleisure, Barre and Kale: The Tyranny of the Ideal Woman” (The Guardian • 2019) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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On BBC A

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I am doing life a few more years means nothing to me

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I'm pregnant

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judges go easy I'm pregnant women

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I've been old my electricity that's all

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don't think I should even be in here.

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A new series of the Baffa Award winning time.

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You tell anyone and I mean anyone about me I will kill you starring Jody Whitaker tomorrow Lawrence and

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Bella Ramsey time watch on BBC eye player in December 2020 a Latino couple was falsely accused by a white mom

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influencer of attempting to kidnap her children. The Karen phenomenon where white

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women falsely accuse people of color of crimes usually fixates on the accuser, the so-called

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Karen.

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But for this series we focus on the innocent couple at the heart of this story.

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I just want the public to know what she did was wrong.

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Hey it's Max, before we get started,

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I have a couple things to tell you. One is that I'm sick, that's why I sound like this, and another is that we got a sponsor this week. It's a new podcast. It's called Time Sensitive. It's an interview show with the leading minds in business arts beyond all people who have a distinct perspective on time

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They've had a bunch of really interesting folks on since they launched back in May,

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and the episode that went up today is with the New York Times

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architecture critic Michael Kilmaman. He's been at the paper since 1990 and he talks about

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