What is Tolentino known for? Biography
Jia Tolentino is a writer and editor from the United States who was previously a contributing editor at The Hairpin and the deputy editor of Jezebel before joining the team of The New Yorker. Her work has also been published in Pitchfork and The New York Times Magazine. Her collection of essays, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion, was released in 2019.
How old is Tolentino? – Age
Born Jia Angeli Carla Tolentino, the writer is 20 November 2023. She was born in 1988 in Toronto, Canada.
Tolentino Family
Tolentino’s parents were from the Philippines, and he was born in Toronto, Ontario. Her family relocated to Houston, Texas, when she was four years old, and she grew up in a Southern Baptist neighborhood there. Tolentino went to a tiny, private Christian school and an evangelical megachurch.
Where did Tolentino go to school? – Education
Tolentino began elementary school early and was salutatorian of her class when she finished from high school. As a Jefferson Scholar, Tolentino enrolled in the University of Virginia in 2005. She studied English, became a member of the Pi Beta Phi sorority, and sang with The Virginia Belles, an a cappella group. Tolentino served for a year in Kyrgyzstan as a Peace Corps volunteer following his 2009 UVA graduation. Tolentino graduated from University of Michigan with an MFA.
Is Tolentino married? – Partner – Husband
While attending UVA, Tolentino met her husband, architect Andrew Daley. Tolentino discusses her conflicting feelings about marriage in great detail in the essay “I Thee Dread” included in her book Trick Mirror. They are parents of two kids.
What is Tolentino doing now?
When Emma Carmichael was the editor-in-chief of The Hairpin in 2013, Tolentino was hired for the publication. Both Tolentino and Carmichael relocated to Jezebel in 2014; Tolentino spent two years there before starting at The New Yorker.
Tolentino’s writing has received praise in a variety of areas. Her debut short story, “Go-To Music Source,” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and won the autumn 2012 Raymond Carver Short Fiction Contest, according to Flavorwire. She has also received positive recognition for her no-holds-barred music criticism and articles on subjects including marriage, abortion, racism in publishing, and ideas of female empowerment. “Tolentino’s sick burns on Charlie Puth” were praised by The A.V. Club, while Studio 360 noted that “no criticism has been quite as cutting as Jia Tolentino’s” despite Magic!’s song “Rude” being nearly universally panted. Tolentino has written a lot on the #MeToo movement in his reports. Tolentino was listed in the media category of Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list in 2017.
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion is a collection of articles that Tolentino published on August 6, 2019. On August 25, it debuted at number two on the Combined Print & E-Book Non-fiction list of The New York Times Bestseller List. “Tolentino’s earnest ambivalence, expressed often throughout the book, is characteristic of millennial life-writing,” noted Maggie Doherty in a New York Times review. “It can be contrasted with boomer self-satisfaction and Gen X disaffection in the same genre.” In her book review, Slate columnist Laura Miller stated, “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.” In the London Review of Books, Lauren Oyler’s critical assessment of Trick Mirror “skewer[ed] the essays’ shallowness and prose quality,” but Tolentino responded favorably, describing the review as a “cleansing, illuminating experience to be read with such open disgust!”
Her 2021 article on Britney Spears’ conservatorship, co-authored with Ronan Farrow, garnered widespread attention. Tyler Aquilina in Entertainment Weekly called the piece “blistering,” and Dirk Peitz in Die Zeit called it a “journalistic reference text on Britney Spears.”