Filipino-American writer and editor
Jia Angeli Carla Tolentino [1] (born 1988)[2] is an American writer and editor.[3] [4] A staff writer for The New Yorker ,[5] she previously worked as deputy editor of Jezebel and a contributing editor at The Hairpin .[6] Her writing has also appeared in The New York Times Magazine [7] and Pitchfork .[8] In 2019, her collected essays were published as Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion .
Early life and education
Tolentino was born in Toronto , Ontario , to parents from the Philippines . When she was four, her family moved to Houston, Texas , where she grew up in a Southern Baptist community.[9] [10] [11] [12] [13] Tolentino attended an evangelical megachurch and a small Christian private school.[13] Tolentino started elementary school early and graduated from high school as her class salutatorian .[13]
At the age of 15, she participated in the game show Girls v. Boys in Puerto Rico.[13]
In 2005, Tolentino enrolled at the University of Virginia [14] as a Jefferson Scholar ,[15] studying English, joining the Pi Beta Phi sorority, and participating in an a cappella group called The Virginia Belles.[13] After graduating from UVA in 2009, Tolentino spent a year as a Peace Corps volunteer in Kyrgyzstan .[9] Tolentino earned an MFA from the University of Michigan .[16]
Career
Tolentino began writing for The Hairpin in 2013, hired by then-editor-in-chief Emma Carmichael.[17] [18] In 2014, Tolentino and Carmichael both moved to Jezebel , where Tolentino worked for two years before joining The New Yorker .[6]
Tolentino's writing has won accolades[19] across genres. Flavorwire called her a "go-to music source,"[20] while her first short story won the fall 2012 Raymond Carver Short Fiction Contest[21] and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize .[22] She has also garnered favorable attention for essays on topics such as race in publishing,[23] marriage,[24] abortion,[25] and notions of female empowerment,[26] as well as for her no-pulled-punches music criticism. The A.V. Club admired "Tolentino's sick burns on Charlie Puth "[27] and Studio 360 observed that even in the near-universal panning of Magic! 's song "Rude ", "no criticism has been quite as cutting as Jia Tolentino's."[28] Tolentino has reported extensively on the #MeToo movement .[29] [30] [31]
In 2017, Tolentino was named in the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in the media category.[32]
On August 6, 2019, Tolentino published a collection of essays entitled Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion .[18] It made its debut on The New York Times Bestseller List on August 25, coming in at #2 on the Combined Print & E-Book Non-fiction list.[33] In a review for The New York Times , Maggie Doherty wrote: "Tolentino’s earnest ambivalence, expressed often throughout the book, is characteristic of millennial life-writing, and it can be contrasted with boomer self-satisfaction and Gen X disaffection in the same genre." Slate columnist Laura Miller wrote in her review of the book, "Tolentino is a classical essayist along the lines of Montaigne , threading her way on the page toward an understanding of what she thinks and feels about life, the world, and herself."[34] Lauren Oyler 's negative review of Trick Mirror in the London Review of Books , "skewer[ed] the essays’ shallowness and prose quality," though Tolentino reacted positively to the review, calling it a "cleansing, illuminating experience to be read with such open disgust!"[35] [36]
Her 2021 reporting on the conservatorship of Britney Spears , co-authored with Ronan Farrow , attracted international attention,[37] [38] [39] with the piece being described as "blistering" by Tyler Aquilina in Entertainment Weekly [40] and as a "journalistic reference text on Britney Spears" by Dirk Peitz in Die Zeit .[41]
In January 2023, Tolentino made a cameo in the HBO Max show Gossip Girl (2021) .[42]
Personal life
Tolentino met her husband, Andrew Daley, an architect, while they were students at UVA.[13] [43] In the essay "I Thee Dread" in her book Trick Mirror , Tolentino writes at length about her ambivalence toward marriage.[44] [45] They have two children.[46]
References
^ "Reason for Dispute: My Name Is Not Angel Polentino" . The Billfold . 2013-03-15. Archived from the original on 2019-02-18. Retrieved 2020-05-04 .
^ Chuck, Erion (2019-11-01). "Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino" . Archived from the original on 2020-08-09. Retrieved 2020-05-22 .
^ "Meet the secret Canadian explaining the Internet to the world, one Wife Guy and Adult Son at a time" . nationalpost . Retrieved 23 August 2021 .
^ Yohannes, Samraweet. "Jia Tolentino among 10 emerging writers to receive $70K Whiting Award" . CBC . Retrieved 23 August 2021 .
^ "Jia Tolentino" . The New Yorker . Archived from the original on 2018-02-05. Retrieved 2018-02-06 .
^ a b Sterne, Peter (June 17, 2016). "New Yorker hires Jezebel deputy editor Jia Tolentino as web staff writer" . Politico . Archived from the original on July 2, 2016. Retrieved July 3, 2016 .
^ Tolentino, Jia (10 March 2016). " 'Marvin Gaye' Charlie Puth" . The New York Times Magazine . Archived from the original on 31 January 2021. Retrieved 3 July 2016 .
^ Tolentino, Jia (June 24, 2016). "Laura Mvula: The Dreaming Room Album Review" . Pitchfork . Archived from the original on August 14, 2017. Retrieved August 13, 2017 .
^ a b Gruss, Mike (Summer 2017). "Rising Star: Jia Tolentino has quickly made a name for herself as an essayist" . Virginia Magazine . Archived from the original on 2018-02-07. Retrieved 2018-02-06 .
^ Tolentino, Jia (31 January 2017). "The Most American Thing" . New Yorker . Archived from the original on 31 August 2017. Retrieved 30 August 2017 .
^ Tolentino, Jia. "I'm a Canadian citizen" . Twitter . Archived from the original on 31 January 2021. Retrieved 30 August 2017 .
^ Tolentino, Jia (March 31, 2017). "Mike Pence's Marriage and the Beliefs That Keep Women from Power" . The New Yorker . Archived from the original on August 14, 2017. Retrieved 2017-08-14 .
^ a b c d e f Langmuir, Molly (2019-07-24). "Jia Tolentino Makes Sense Out of This Nonsense Moment" . ELLE . Archived from the original on 2019-08-13. Retrieved 2019-08-10 .
^ Tolentino, Jia (August 13, 2017). "Charlottesville and the Effort to Downplay Racism in America" . The New Yorker . Archived from the original on August 13, 2017. Retrieved 2017-08-14 .
^ Hamilton, Heath (April 29, 2005). "Second Baptist student wins Jefferson Scholarship at the University of Virginia" . Your Houston News . Archived from the original on June 10, 2016. Retrieved July 3, 2016 .
^ "Jia Tolentino - Jefferson Scholars Foundation" . jeffersonscholars.org . Archived from the original on 2016-08-12. Retrieved 2016-07-03 .
^ Tolentino, Jia. "Bye, I Hate It" . Jezebel . Archived from the original on 2017-08-13. Retrieved 2017-08-14 .
^ a b Maggie Doherty (2019-08-04). "Jia Tolentino on the 'Unlivable Hell' of the Web and Other Millennial Conundrums" . The New York Times . Archived from the original on 2019-08-04. Retrieved 2019-08-04 .
^ Ransom, Brian (7 August 2019). "Please Fire Jia Tolentino" . The Paris Review . Retrieved 21 February 2023 .
^ "Staff Picks: Flavorwire's Favorite Cultural Things This Week" . Flavorwire . 5 March 2014. Archived from the original on 26 August 2016. Retrieved 3 July 2016 .
^ Liang, Rio (May 15, 2013). "Q&A with Jia Tolentino" . Carve Magazine . Archived from the original on August 15, 2016. Retrieved July 3, 2016 .
^ "Short Story Review: The Odyssey by Jia Tolentino" . Fictionphile . 1 February 2013. Archived from the original on 9 August 2016. Retrieved 3 July 2016 .
^ Bovy, Phoebe Maltz (12 October 2015). "White Male Writers: No Longer the Default, and Not Terribly Interesting" . The New Republic . Archived from the original on 29 June 2016. Retrieved 3 July 2016 .
^ Odell, Amy (30 December 2013). "Are We Seriously Still Judging Women Who Want to Get Married?" . Cosmopolitan . Archived from the original on 13 August 2016. Retrieved 3 July 2016 .
^ Tolentino, Jia. "Interview With a Woman Who Recently Had an Abortion at 32 Weeks" . Jezebel . Archived from the original on 2018-10-13. Retrieved 2018-10-01 .
^ King-Miller, Lindsay (November 21, 2014). "Pretty Unnecessary: Taking beauty out of body positivity" . Bitch Media . Archived from the original on April 19, 2016. Retrieved July 3, 2016 .
^ Dart, Chris (10 March 2016). "The New York Times' "Future Of Music" list discusses "the era of the song" " . The A.V. Club . Archived from the original on 9 July 2016. Retrieved 3 July 2016 .
^ Rameswaram, Sean (August 26, 2014). "Sideshow Podcast: "Rude" by Magic! Is the Worst Best Song of the Summer" . Studio 360 . Archived from the original on September 19, 2016. Retrieved July 3, 2016 .
^ Waldman, Paul (2018-01-25). "Opinion | Happy Hour Roundup" . Washington Post . Archived from the original on 2018-01-31. Retrieved 2018-02-01 .
^ Chotiner, Isaac (2018-01-26). "I Have to Ask: The Jia Tolentino Edition" . Slate . ISSN 1091-2339 . Archived from the original on 2018-02-01. Retrieved 2018-02-01 .
^ Chotiner, Isaac. "The New Yorker's Jia Tolentino on How We're Missing the Real Issue of #MeToo" . Slate Magazine . Archived from the original on 2018-01-30. Retrieved 2018-02-01 .
^ "30 Under 30 2017: Media" . Forbes . Retrieved 2022-10-14 .
^ "The New York Times Best Sellers" . The New York Times . 2019-08-25. Archived from the original on 2019-08-28. Retrieved 2020-08-23 .
^ Miller, Laura (2019-08-13). "Jia Tolentino's Debut Is a Hall of Mirrors You'll Never Want to Leave" . Slate. Archived from the original on 2020-07-26. Retrieved 2020-08-23 .
^ "Los Angeles Review of Books" . Los Angeles Review of Books . 2022-01-13. Retrieved 2023-01-30 .
^ "@jiatolentino" . Twitter . Retrieved 2023-01-30 .
^ Mogensen, Jackie Flynn. "The New Yorker just published a major investigation into Britney Spears' conservatorship" . Mother Jones . Retrieved 2021-07-05 .
^ "¿Por qué Britney Spears llamó al 911 un día antes de la audiencia para liberarse de su tutela?" . El Heraldo de México (in Spanish). 5 July 2021. Retrieved 2021-07-05 .
^ "Chilling catch-22 of Britney's conservatorship" . NewsComAu . 2021-07-05. Retrieved 2021-07-05 .
^ "Britney Spears called 911 to report conservatorship abuse the night before court testimony" . EW.com . Retrieved 2021-07-05 .
^ Peitz, Dirk (2021-07-05). "Das Toxische des Ruhms" . Die Zeit . Retrieved 2021-07-05 .
^ Zukin, Meg (2023-01-12). "Gossip Girl Recap: Truth in Cinema" . Vulture . Retrieved 2023-01-13 .
^ "2021 Class Day Speaker Jia Tolentino: An Interview" . Harvard Graduate School of Design . 2021-05-27. Retrieved 2022-02-22 .
^ Bryant, Kenzie (2019-08-05). "Jia Tolentino Doesn't Have All the Answers" . Vanity Fair . Archived from the original on 2021-01-31. Retrieved 6 September 2020 .
^ Tolentino, Jia (2019). Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion . Penguin Random House LLC.
^ Tolentino, Jia (2024-05-04). "The Hidden-Pregnancy Experiment" . The New Yorker . ISSN 0028-792X . Retrieved 2024-05-05 .
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