A writer who says that she learns more about herself through every book she reads, essayist Jia Tolentino is this year’s guest editor for the annually published anthology showcasing the best essays of the previous year, “The Best American Essays 2025.”

Tolentino is best known for being the perspicacious millennial voice as a staff writer at the New Yorker . In 2019, without taking a sabbatical from work, she authored a book of ten essays entitled Trick Mirror, in which she reflects on her beginnings writing on the internet, challenges society’s constant need to optimize and questions the true intentions around the business of marriage, to name a few topics. Tolentino joined the Brooklyn Eagle to discuss essays, share why she loves living in Brooklyn and expand on the need for

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