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Book

Trick mirror : reflections on self-delusion

Call Numbers

  • 973.93 T6497 (CEN)
  • 973.93 T6497 TEEN (OSH)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : Random House, 2019.

Physical Description

xi, 303 pages ; 24 cm

Summary

A breakout writer at <i>The New Yorker<i> examines the fractures at the center of contemporary culture with verve, deftness, and intellectual ferocity--for readers who've wondered what Susan Sontag would have been like if she had brain damage from the internet.rnet.

Contents

  • The I in internet
  • Reality TV me
  • Always be optimizing
  • Pure heroines
  • Ecstasy
  • The story of a generation in seven scams
  • We come from old Virginia
  • The cult of the difficult woman
  • I thee dread.

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