We Can Do Hard Things

222. Jia Tolentino: The 1% of Life that Makes It All Worth It


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Jia Tolentino joins us to discuss how to finally accept all sides of you: 

  • Why your un-productivity matters most; 
  • When your shame is good; 
  • How to make your real life bigger than your internet life;
  • How to let motherhood energize you instead of drain you; and 
  • How to stop scrolling in the middle of the night.  

  • Plus, we talk acid trips, the sorority rush that Jia and Amanda shared, why Glennon’s friends track Jia’s words – and whether Glennon’s mug shot will inspire Jia’s next show.  


    About Jia: 

    Jia Tolentino is a staff writer at The New Yorker, a screenwriter, and the author of the New York Times bestseller Trick Mirror. In 2020, she received a Whiting Award as well as the Jeannette Haien Ballard Prize, and has most recently won a National Magazine Award for three pieces about the repeal of Roe v. Wade. Trick Mirror was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize and the PEN Award and was named one of the best books of the year by the New York Public Library, the New York Times Book Review, the Washington Post, NPR, the Chicago Tribune, GQ, and the Paris Review. Jia lives in Brooklyn.

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