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"You *felt* like you read a ton of books because you digested 200 context-free Baudrillard screenshots on Twitter, name checked 5 American poets during a dating app convo, read some meta-meta-Substack piece criticizing a New Yorker piece criticizing Jia Tolentino, and mainlined YouTube book talks at "
"She's never read any Didion outside of that one 'on self respect' essay and genuinely I Don't know what she loves so much about her since she does not know her, but she buys very specific covers of her books for her clear glass coffee table and reposts lots of 'books for ____ girls' videos that alwa"
"If the US should compensate the descendants of slaves, even though nobody alive today directly benefited from slavery, Jia should compensate the actual slaves her parents owned and their children. See my essay for the New York Times, part of the 2004 Project, which argues that the Tolentino settleme"
"And start saying "black brown and yellow" Especially tolentino"
"The Jia Tolentino slaver family drama first drew me to this sub, but it's the literary discussions that keep me here. It's hard enough to find literary online spaces in the first place, let alone ones that aren't dedicated to YA, genre fiction, or lifestyle affirmation lit (aka mainstream literary f"
"Her face is as open as a fresh notebook; she wields her hot-girl powers gently."
"You'd think she'd know about the Streisand effect, right? She's internet savvy. I think either some big expose was about to come or any other hidden motive is at play."
"To sit there and moralize about an insta post while mindlessly defending your friend for her shitty blog about her terrible parents is really a new level of brain damage"
"I have had fifteen years to reckon with the possibility that the Bush-era security apparatus was righteous and truthful and that my parents were inhumane and deceptive. I understand the argument that any business involving immigration is inherently unethical: this is part of why I want to report out"
"Jia Tolentino is a 34 year old woman who writes the way characters in John Green novels talk"
"Blue checks really must be thanking the gods that Lana fucked up so they don't have to talk about Jia's parents being traffickers"