Authors who might act as references for Stagg’s essays include Jia Tolentino, Mark Greif and further back, the ubiquitous Didion. Stagg’s essays are mainly NY based. They inhabit the edges of the fashion world and ‘new media’, both of which industries she dissects wryly, as well as making observations on what it’s like to be a young, literate woman in NY, with its complex dating scene and harsh economic realities. There are times when the essays appear to meander, but within these rivers there are gems. This is where you need to come to get the skinny on what IG influencer culture is really like: one well-researched essay in particular goes further into the mindset of these new young capitalist puritans than anything else I have read.
“The way the political situation is infiltrating my social life is alarming, because it isn’t.”
“The nineties, as seen by millennials, were the last decade of ignorant bliss.”
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