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The New Yorker staff writer Jia Tolentino, whose first book, “Trick Mirror,” quickly landed on the best-seller list, has been called the voice of the millennial generation.

“There shouldn’t be a voice of a generation,” she says on this week’s podcast. “There are so many. It’s kind of self-evident that only bad things can come from designating someone singular in any way. So I’m flattered, but not taking that seriously at all.”

Tolentino goes on to discuss the ways in which her essays grapple with the internet’s influence on our thoughts and behavior.