Today for The Stacks Book Club we’re discussing Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino. We’ve brought back Jordan Moblo, TV executive and professional reader, to talk about the many ideas that come up in this essay collection, including gender norms, being a millennial, the allure of scammers, difficult women, and more!
There are no spoilers on this episode.
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Everything we talk about on today’s episode can be found below in the show notes and on Bookshop.org and Amazon.
- Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino
- Rebecca Solnit
- Britney Spears
- Sylvia Plath
- The New Yorker
- Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Thick by Tressie McMillan Cottom
- Billy McFarland
- Fyre Festival
- Ja Rule
- My Friend Anna by Rachel DeLoache Williams
- Bad Blood by John Carreyrou
- “Ep. 28 Bad Blood by John Carreyrou — The Stacks Book Club (Nancy Rommelmann)” (The Stacks)
- Elizabeth Holmes
- Nasty Gal
- Sophia Amoruso
- Amazon
- Uber
- Stanford
- Hope Hicks
- Stephen Miller
- Kim Kardashian
- Serena Williams
- Fleishman Is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
- Sarah Huckabee Sanders
- Michelle Wolf
- “Michelle Wolf COMPLETE REMARKS at 2018 White House Correspondents’ Dinner” (C-Span, Youtube.com)
- Kellyanne Conway
- Melania Trump
- Tom Steyer
- Kamala Harris
- Pete Buttigieg
- Elizabeth Warren
- Reese Witherspoon
- Gwyneth Paltrow
- Jessica Alba
- Winona Ryder
- Little Women (Gillian Armstrong, 1994)
- Zendaya
- Barry’s Bootcamp
- Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
- The Hunger Games Series by Suzanne Collins
- CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (CBS)
- The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
- Matilda by Roald Dahl
- Matilda (Danny DeVito, 1996)
- Mara Wilson
- Mrs. Doubtfire (Chris Columbus, 1993)
- Harvey Firestein
- Harvey Weinstein
- Hairspray (2002)
- University of Virginia
- Thomas Jefferson
- Sally Hemings
- “A Rape on Campus” (Sabrina Rubin Erdely, Rolling Stone)
- Michigan State University
- Missoula by Jon Krakauer
- University of Montana
- “Wake” (Still Processing, The New York Times)
- Christine Blasey Ford
- Brett Kavanaugh
- “League of Men” (Elizabeth Schambelan, n+1 Magazine)
- New York University
- She Said by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey
- “The Toll of Me Too” (Rebecca Traister, The Cut)
- Matt Lauer
- Charlie Rose
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