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Tolentino, 31, started her career with the Hairpin before moving to Jezebel.

“I need to kind of admit people read what I write.” “I’m kidding myself a little bit,” she says. “The reward is satisfying whatever itch made me write in the first place.”īut as an increasingly high-profile essayist for The New Yorker and the bestselling author of 2019’s Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion - a now-seminal text for millennials stumbling through late-stage capitalism and social media malaise - it’s getting harder to pretend she’s writing into a void. “I don’t know if it’s a self-protective impulse, or like a chip missing, but I tend to only think about making myself happy,” she says.

Whenever she’s working on an essay, Jia Tolentino pretends nobody will read it.