Jia Tolentino Explained

Jia Tolentino
Birth Place:Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Nationality:American / Canadian
Education:University of Virginia (BA)
University of Michigan (MFA)
Occupation:Writer, editor
Years Active:2013–present
Employer:The New Yorker

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. Tolentino started elementary school early and graduated from high school as her class salutatorian.

At the age of 15, she participated in the game show Girls v. Boys in Puerto Rico.

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. After graduating from UVA in 2009, Tolentino spent a year as a Peace Corps volunteer in Kyrgyzstan. 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] In 2014, Tolentino and Carmichael both moved to Jezebel, where Tolentino worked for two years before joining The New Yorker.

Tolentino's writing has won accolades[18] across genres. Flavorwire called her a "go-to music source,"[19] while her first short story won the fall 2012 Raymond Carver Short Fiction Contest[20] and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.[21] She has also garnered favorable attention for essays on topics such as race in publishing,[22] marriage,[23] abortion,[24] and notions of female empowerment,[25] as well as for her no-pulled-punches music criticism. The A.V. Club admired "Tolentino's sick burns on Charlie Puth"[26] 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."[27] Tolentino has reported extensively on the

  1. MeToo movement
.[28] [29] [30]

In 2017, Tolentino was named in the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in the media category.[31]

On August 6, 2019, Tolentino published a collection of essays entitled Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion. 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.[32] 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."[33] 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!"[34] [35]

Her 2021 reporting on the conservatorship of Britney Spears, co-authored with Ronan Farrow, attracted international attention,[36] [37] [38] with the piece being described as "blistering" by Tyler Aquilina in Entertainment Weekly[39] and as a "journalistic reference text on Britney Spears" by Dirk Peitz in Die Zeit.[40]

In January 2023, Tolentino made a cameo in the HBO Max show Gossip Girl.[41]

Personal life

Tolentino met her husband, Andrew Daley, an architect, while they were students at UVA.[42] In the essay "I Thee Dread" in her book Trick Mirror, Tolentino writes at length about her ambivalence toward marriage.[43] [44] They have two children.[45]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Reason for Dispute: My Name Is Not Angel Polentino. 2013-03-15. The Billfold. en. 2020-05-04. 2019-02-18. https://web.archive.org/web/20190218082324/https://www.thebillfold.com/2013/03/reason-for-dispute-my-name-is-not-angel-polentino/. live.
  2. News: Chuck . Erion . 2019-11-01 . Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino . en . 2020-05-22 . 2020-08-09 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200809031348/https://www.therecord.com/entertainment/books/2019/11/01/chuck-erion-trick-mirror-by-jia-tolentino.html . live .
  3. News: Meet the secret Canadian explaining the Internet to the world, one Wife Guy and Adult Son at a time . 23 August 2021 . nationalpost . en-CA.
  4. News: Yohannes . Samraweet . Jia Tolentino among 10 emerging writers to receive $70K Whiting Award . 23 August 2021 . CBC.
  5. Jia Tolentino. The New Yorker. en. 2018-02-06. https://web.archive.org/web/20180205193408/https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/jia-tolentino. 2018-02-05. live.
  6. News: Sterne. Peter. New Yorker hires Jezebel deputy editor Jia Tolentino as web staff writer. Politico. June 17, 2016. July 3, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160702152639/http://www.politico.com/media/story/2016/06/new-yorker-hires-jezebel-deputy-editor-jia-tolentino-as-web-staff-writer-004609. July 2, 2016. live.
  7. News: Tolentino. Jia. 'Marvin Gaye' Charlie Puth. The New York Times Magazine. 10 March 2016. 3 July 2016. 31 January 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210131223600/https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/03/10/magazine/25-songs-that-tell-us-where-music-is-going.html?smid=tw-share. live.
  8. Web site: Laura Mvula: The Dreaming Room Album Review. Tolentino. Jia. June 24, 2016. Pitchfork. https://web.archive.org/web/20170814102229/http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/21719-the-dreaming-room/. August 14, 2017. August 13, 2017. live.
  9. News: Rising Star: Jia Tolentino has quickly made a name for herself as an essayist. Gruss. Mike. Summer 2017. Virginia Magazine. 2018-02-06. https://web.archive.org/web/20180207005714/http://uvamagazine.org/articles/rising_star. 2018-02-07. en. live.
  10. Web site: Tolentino. Jia. The Most American Thing. New Yorker. 31 January 2017 . 30 August 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170831040920/http://www.newyorker.com/culture/jia-tolentino/the-most-american-thing?intcid=mod-latest. 31 August 2017. live.
  11. Web site: Tolentino. Jia. I'm a Canadian citizen. Twitter. 30 August 2017. 31 January 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210131223605/https://twitter.com/jiatolentino/status/799771412525416448. live.
  12. Mike Pence's Marriage and the Beliefs That Keep Women from Power. Tolentino. Jia. March 31, 2017. The New Yorker. https://web.archive.org/web/20170814101751/http://www.newyorker.com/culture/jia-tolentino/mike-pences-marriage-and-the-beliefs-that-keep-women-from-power. August 14, 2017. 2017-08-14. live.
  13. Web site: Jia Tolentino Makes Sense Out of This Nonsense Moment. Langmuir. Molly. 2019-07-24. ELLE. en-US. 2019-08-10. https://web.archive.org/web/20190813000957/https://www.elle.com/culture/a28381933/jia-tolentino-trick-mirror-interview/. 2019-08-13. live.
  14. Charlottesville and the Effort to Downplay Racism in America. Tolentino. Jia. August 13, 2017. The New Yorker. https://web.archive.org/web/20170813233741/http://www.newyorker.com/culture/jia-tolentino/charlottesville-and-the-effort-to-downplay-racism-in-america. August 13, 2017. 2017-08-14. live.
  15. Web site: Second Baptist student wins Jefferson Scholarship at the University of Virginia. Hamilton. Heath. April 29, 2005. Your Houston News. July 3, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160610150544/http://www.yourhoustonnews.com/memorial/news/second-baptist-student-wins-jefferson-scholarship-at-the-university-of/article_8b150a0b-785c-5cd7-bf72-7d4f0f61f13e.html. June 10, 2016. live.
  16. Web site: Jia Tolentino - Jefferson Scholars Foundation. jeffersonscholars.org. 2016-07-03. https://web.archive.org/web/20160812002229/http://www.jeffersonscholars.org/people/jia-tolentino. 2016-08-12. live.
  17. News: Bye, I Hate It. Tolentino. Jia. Jezebel. 2017-08-14. en-US. https://web.archive.org/web/20170813195728/http://jezebel.com/bye-i-hate-it-1783339254. 2017-08-13. live.
  18. News: Ransom . Brian . Please Fire Jia Tolentino . 21 February 2023 . The Paris Review . 7 August 2019 . en.
  19. Web site: Staff Picks: Flavorwire's Favorite Cultural Things This Week. Flavorwire. 5 March 2014. 3 July 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160826004534/http://flavorwire.com/443606/staff-picks-flavorwires-favorite-cultural-things-this-week-46. 26 August 2016. live.
  20. Web site: Liang. Rio. Q&A with Jia Tolentino. Carve Magazine. May 15, 2013. July 3, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160815235659/http://www.carvezine.com/from-the-editor/carver-contest-qa-with-jia-tolentino-2012-1st-place-prizewin.html. August 15, 2016. live.
  21. Web site: Short Story Review: The Odyssey by Jia Tolentino. Fictionphile. 1 February 2013. 3 July 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160809134432/http://fictionphile.com/short-story-review-the-odyssey-by-jia-tolentino/#.V3lStY6Or61. 9 August 2016. live.
  22. Bovy. Phoebe Maltz. White Male Writers: No Longer the Default, and Not Terribly Interesting. The New Republic. 12 October 2015. 3 July 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160629184856/https://newrepublic.com/article/123088/white-male-writers-no-longer-default-not-terribly-interesting. 29 June 2016. live.
  23. Web site: Odell. Amy. Are We Seriously Still Judging Women Who Want to Get Married?. Cosmopolitan. 30 December 2013. 3 July 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160813002100/http://www.cosmopolitan.com/sex-love/advice/a5273/stop-judging-marrying-women/. 13 August 2016. live.
  24. News: Interview With a Woman Who Recently Had an Abortion at 32 Weeks. Tolentino. Jia. Jezebel. 2018-10-01. en-US. https://web.archive.org/web/20181013063015/https://jezebel.com/interview-with-a-woman-who-recently-had-an-abortion-at-1781972395. 2018-10-13. live.
  25. Web site: King-Miller. Lindsay. Pretty Unnecessary: Taking beauty out of body positivity. Bitch Media. November 21, 2014. July 3, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160419020732/https://bitchmedia.org/article/pretty-unnecessary-beauty-body-positivity. April 19, 2016. live.
  26. Web site: Dart. Chris. The New York Times' "Future Of Music" list discusses "the era of the song". The A.V. Club. 10 March 2016. 3 July 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160709015131/http://www.avclub.com/article/new-york-times-future-music-list-discusses-era-son-233536. 9 July 2016. live.
  27. Web site: Rameswaram. Sean. Sideshow Podcast: "Rude" by Magic! Is the Worst Best Song of the Summer. Studio 360. August 26, 2014. July 3, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160919072348/http://www.wnyc.org/story/sideshow-podcast-rude-magic-worst-best-song-summer/. September 19, 2016. live.
  28. News: Opinion Happy Hour Roundup. Waldman. Paul. 2018-01-25. Washington Post. en-US. 2018-02-01. https://web.archive.org/web/20180131225641/https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2018/01/25/happy-hour-roundup-1283/. 2018-01-31. live.
  29. News: I Have to Ask: The Jia Tolentino Edition. Chotiner. Isaac. 2018-01-26. Slate. 2018-02-01. en-US. 1091-2339. https://web.archive.org/web/20180201133928/http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/i_have_to_ask/2018/01/jia_tolentino_on_the_state_of_feminism_and_the_metoo_backlash.html. 2018-02-01. live.
  30. News: The New Yorker's Jia Tolentino on How We're Missing the Real Issue of #MeToo. Chotiner. Isaac. Slate Magazine. 2018-02-01. en. https://web.archive.org/web/20180130173724/https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/01/new-yorker-staff-writer-jia-tolentino-on-metoo-critiques-and-writing-about-womens-issues.html. 2018-01-30. live.
  31. Web site: 30 Under 30 2017: Media . 2022-10-14 . Forbes . en.
  32. News: The New York Times Best Sellers . The New York Times . 2020-08-23 . 2019-08-25 . 2019-08-28 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190828173528/https://www.nytimes.com/books/best-sellers/2019/08/25 . live .
  33. News: Miller . Laura . Jia Tolentino's Debut Is a Hall of Mirrors You'll Never Want to Leave . 2020-08-23 . Slate . 2019-08-13 . 2020-07-26 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200726122919/https://slate.com/culture/2019/08/jia-tolentino-book-review-trick-mirror-reflections-on-self-delusion.html . live .
  34. Web site: 2022-01-13 . Los Angeles Review of Books . 2023-01-30 . Los Angeles Review of Books . en.
  35. Web site: @jiatolentino . 2023-01-30 . Twitter . en.
  36. Web site: Mogensen. Jackie Flynn. The New Yorker just published a major investigation into Britney Spears' conservatorship. 2021-07-05. Mother Jones. en-US.
  37. Web site: ¿Por qué Britney Spears llamó al 911 un día antes de la audiencia para liberarse de su tutela?. 2021-07-05. El Heraldo de México. 5 July 2021 . es.
  38. Web site: 2021-07-05. Chilling catch-22 of Britney's conservatorship. 2021-07-05. NewsComAu. en.
  39. Web site: Britney Spears called 911 to report conservatorship abuse the night before court testimony. 2021-07-05. EW.com. en.
  40. News: Peitz. Dirk. 2021-07-05. Das Toxische des Ruhms. Die Zeit. 2021-07-05.
  41. Web site: Zukin . Meg . 2023-01-12 . Gossip Girl Recap: Truth in Cinema . 2023-01-13 . Vulture . en-us.
  42. Web site: 2021-05-27. 2021 Class Day Speaker Jia Tolentino: An Interview. 2022-02-22. Harvard Graduate School of Design. en-US.
  43. Bryant . Kenzie . Jia Tolentino Doesn't Have All the Answers . 6 September 2020 . Vanity Fair . 2019-08-05 . en-us . 2021-01-31 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210131223602/https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2019/08/jia-tolentino-trick-mirror-interview . live .
  44. Book: Tolentino . Jia . Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion . 2019 . Penguin Random House LLC.
  45. News: Tolentino . Jia . 2024-05-04 . The Hidden-Pregnancy Experiment . 2024-05-05 . The New Yorker . en-US . 0028-792X.

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