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Anne Helen Petersen • Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation
“Basically—I empathize.
D. T. Max • Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
lifestyle myth, a paradigm where a woman can muster all the technology, money, and politics available to her to actually try to become that idealized self, and where she can understand relentless self-improvement as natural, mandatory, and feminist—or just, without question, the best way to live.
Jia Tolentino • Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
Her hair was a declaration, not an admission.
Maggie Shipstead • Great Circle: the dazzling, instant New York Times bestseller
Perfection is a stick with which to beat the possible.
Rebecca Solnit • Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
The EAs were too “woke” and too concerned with appearances.