Jia Tolentino and Jenna Wortham
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This week, two phenomenally smart observers of culture, Jia Tolentino and Jenna Wortham.\\xa0 Tolentino
\\nis a staff writer at The New Yorker and author of the essay collection \\u201cTrick Mirror\\u201d. Wortham co-hosts the New York Times podcast \\u201cStill Processing\\u201d. On May 6, 2020, what was to be an on-stage conversation at the Sydney Goldstein Theater in San Francisco ended up being a far more intimate exchange about the
\\nlogistics and emotional realities of life in self-isolation.\\xa0 The two spoke by videoconference, discussing
\\ntheir new relationships to productivity, an urgent desire to do good in the world, and some of the lighter aspects of their pandemic lives \\u2013 such as reality television.