Jia Tolentino is a staff writer at The New Yorker. Previously, she was the deputy editor at Jezebel and a contributing editor at the Hairpin. Her essays and criticism have appeared in the Times Magazine, Grantland, the Awl, Pitchfork, The Fader, Time, and Slate.
Reading List: Jia Tolentino recommends William Finnegan’s “Off Diamond Head.”
Houston, by one measure the most diverse city in America, is an enormous collection of people connected by a confusing combination of independence and generosity.
