Jia Tolentino on Life With the Internet

The Book Review

The New York Times

Books, Arts

4.0 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2019

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Tolentino talks about “Trick Mirror,” and John Taliaferro discusses “Grinnell,” his biography of a pioneering conservationist.

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0:00.0	How do you capture ambivalence about the internet and millennial life in a book of essays?
0:11.1	Geotolentino will be here to discuss her first book, already a New York Times bestseller,
0:16.0	Trick Mirror.
0:17.6	Who was America's first conservationist?
0:19.7	John Tolliver will be here to talk about his book, Grinnell.
0:23.2	Plus we'll talk about what we and the water world are reading.
0:26.4	This is the Book Review Podcast from the New York Times.
0:29.0	I'm Pamela Paul.
0:38.0	Geotolentino joins us now.
0:39.8	She is the author of a new essay collection, her first book.
0:42.9	It's called Trick Mirror, Reflections on Self-Delusion.
0:46.4	Geot thanks for being here.
0:47.4	Thank you for having me on.
0:48.7	So you got an MFA in fiction writing from the University of Michigan
0:53.0	and an early story of yours was a finalist for the push card prize.
0:56.1	So I think we were all waiting for the novel.
0:59.5	Where is the novel?
1:00.2	I know you've written one.
1:01.2	The novel is deep in a drawer where it shall remain ever more.
1:05.4	Really?
1:05.9	No return to fiction for you.
1:07.5	I would love to try to write fiction again.
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