Jia Tolentino Battles The Internet

Fail Better with David Duchovny

Grace Cohen-Chen

Society & Culture

4.6 • 534 Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Jia Tolentino has the internet to thank for some of her biggest successes. In the 2000s, it offered her connections beyond her strict religious community and gave her a place to share her writing with her millennial peers. Her “online” insights carved out a niche at The New Yorker, and her 2019 essay collection, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion, made a big splash with readers who felt similarly mired in digital disillusion. But these days she’s swearing off social media and seeking out the sublime elsewhere. Jia and I discuss the joys and perils of living life online (or even adjacent to it), the unexpected impacts of digital surveillance, and what all of this means for raising children. Follow me on Instagram at @davidduchovny. Stay up to date with Lemonada on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram at @LemonadaMedia. Joining Lemonada Premium is a great way to support our show and get bonus content. Subscribe today at bit.ly/lemonadapremium. And if you want to continue the conversation with other listeners, join the My Lemonada community at https://lemonadamedia.com/mylemonada/ For a list of current sponsors and discount codes for this and every other Lemonada show, go to lemonadamedia.com/sponsors. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's morning in New York.
0:02.8	Oh, God.
0:06.2	Hey, everybody.
0:07.3	I'm Mandy Patinkin.
0:08.7	And I'm Catherine Grady.
0:09.8	And we have a new podcast.
0:11.7	It's called Don't Listen to Us.
0:14.1	Many of you've asked for our advice.
0:16.1	Tell me, what is wrong with you people?
0:19.2	Don't listen to us.
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0:24.7	A Lemonada Media Original.
0:36.2	Hi, I'm David DeKovny, and this is Fail Better, a show where failure, not success, shapes who we are.
0:43.3	Gia Tolentino is a culture critic and staff writer for the New Yorker.
0:47.3	Gia was born in Canada and moved to Texas with her family at a young age.
0:51.3	She spent much of her early years deeply involved in the
0:54.3	evangelical church. In 2019, Gia published a collection of essays called Trick Mirror, Reflections
1:00.2	on Self-Dilusion. It captured a lot of Gia's interests and fears in one book, so it's a good
1:05.1	place to start to get to know her point of view as a writer. I read it when it came out, but I
1:10.2	thought it was one of the first brilliant books on the
1:14.3	internet that was really getting into the dangers of what that world was becoming at the time
1:19.7	and has become since.
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