Jia Tolentino

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Jia Tolentino (born November 20, 1988 in Canada ) is an American author and journalist. She works as a permanent writer for The New Yorker . She previously worked as the deputy editor-in-chief of the Jezebel blog and as the contributing editor of the online feminist magazine The Hairpin. Her texts have also appeared in the New York Times Magazine and on The Hairpin.

childhood and education

Tolentino was in the Canadian Toronto as a child Filipino born parents. At the age of four, she and her family moved to Houston , Texas , where she grew up in a Southern Baptist Convention community . She attended an evangelical megachurch and a small Christian private school. She has a younger brother. She finished high school second in her class. Although she was admitted to the prestigious Yale University , her family's financial circumstances led her to enroll at the University of Virginia in 2005 , where she studied English with a scholarship.

After completing her bachelor's degree in 2009, she worked for a year in the American Peace Corps in Kyrgyzstan . She then earned a Masters of Fine Arts from the University of Michigan .

Career

Tolentino started working for the American women's blog The Hairpin in 2013 . In 2014 she switched to the feminist website Jezebel until she was hired by The New Yorker two years later .

Tolentino's journalistic activities cover various areas, including a. Music reviews. Her essays on the importance of ethnic background in publishing, marriage, abortion, and female self-empowerment attracted particular attention. She has reported extensively on the #MeToo movement. Tolentino also wrote literary texts. Her first short story won the Raymond Carver competition and was nominated for the Pushcart Prize.

In 2019 Tolentino published a collection of essays entitled Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion . The reception was very positive. Critics see Tolentino as the "best young essayist of our time", who would be in line with feminist greats like Rebecca Solnit and Susan Sontag . In Europe, too, the reception is slowly taking hold.

Publications

Books

  • Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion . New York: Random House. 2019.

Essays and reports

  • "Limits of power". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker . 93 (34): 15-16. October 30, 2017.
  • "Killing it: is there something wrong with millennials?". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker . 93 (39): 65-68. 4th December 2017.
  • "Safer spaces: could small changes in campus life reduce the risk of sexual assault?" American Chronicles. The New Yorker . 94 (1): 34-41. 12-19 February 2018.
  • "Ecstasy: Losing Religion and Doing Drugs in Houston". Personal history. The New Yorker . 95 (14): 38-45. May 27, 2019.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jia Tolentino. Retrieved February 20, 2020 .
  2. ^ Peter Sterne: New Yorker hires Jezebel deputy editor Jia Tolentino as web staff writer. Retrieved February 20, 2020 .
  3. ^ The New York Times Magazine: 25 Songs That Tell Us Where Music Is Going . In: The New York Times . March 10, 2016, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed February 20, 2020]).
  4. ↑ Laura Mvula: The Dreaming Room. Retrieved February 20, 2020 .
  5. ↑ a b Rising Star: Jia Tolentino has quickly made a name for herself as an essayist. Retrieved February 20, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Jia Tolentino: What It Means to Be American in the Trump Era. Retrieved February 20, 2020 .
  7. ^ Jia Tolentino: Mike Pence's Marriage and the Beliefs That Keep Women from Power. Retrieved February 20, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Longform Podcast # 183: Jia Tolentino · Longform. Retrieved February 20, 2020 .
  9. ^ Jia Tolentino | Jefferson Scholars Foundation. Retrieved February 20, 2020 .
  10. ^ Peter Sterne: New Yorker hires Jezebel deputy editor Jia Tolentino as web staff writer. Retrieved February 20, 2020 .
  11. ↑ If You're a White Man Who Can't Get Published Under Your Own Name, Take the Hint. Retrieved February 20, 2020 (American English).
  12. ↑ Amy Odell: Are We Seriously Still Judging Women Who Want to Get Married? December 30, 2013. Retrieved February 20, 2020 (American English).
  13. ↑ Interview With a Woman Who Had an Abortion at 32 Weeks. Retrieved February 20, 2020 (American English).
  14. ↑ Pretty Unnecessary: ​​Taking beauty out of body positivity. Retrieved February 20, 2020 .
  15. ^ Slate's Use of Your Data. Retrieved February 20, 2020 .
  16. ^ Q&A with Jia Tolentino. Retrieved February 20, 2020 (American English).
  17. ↑ fictionphile: Short Story Review: The Odyssey by Jia Tolentino. In: Fictionphile. February 1, 2013, accessed February 20, 2020 (American English).
  18. ^ A b Sarah Pines: “Trick Mirror” author Jia Tolentino is celebrated as an essayist . In: THE WORLD . January 6, 2020 ( welt.de [accessed February 20, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Tolentino, Jia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American author and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Canada