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Making savvy use of that thriller conceit, Tolkin’s wildly entertaining first novel offers a front-row seat to the self-absorption that characterizes those who would (and do) become mythmakers in Tinseltown.
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Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2024
Monologuing about the minutiae of one’s DNA is self-absorption at, quite literally, the cellular level.
—Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2024
As Tanner’s novel explores these topics, its depiction of Jules’s relationships also highlights absurdities of contemporary culture and the consequences of self-absorption.
—The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
The show centers around Lauren Caspian (voiced by Woods), public radio’s third most popular host, whose self-absorption and haughtiness are matched only by the dulcet tenor of his voice.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 4 Jan. 2024
The play isn’t subtle in presenting its allegory of national racial dysfunction—the white family’s self-absorption in the face of Black suffering, and their swift move to commodify it—but Jacobs-Jenkins’s dramatic machinery is often immensely effective.
—Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2023
Its author, Dan Fox, works to separate pretentiousness from the many turnoffs the word conjures, like arrogance, self-absorption and snobbery.
—Jon Mooallem, New York Times, 3 Dec. 2023
For many, Yoon’s self-absorption and eagerness to target the media are reminiscent of the country’s mid-century military dictatorship, which lasted until the nineteen-eighties.
—E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2023
The interview went viral on Friday, prompting widespread criticism of Wenner and portraying him as embodying stereotypes about baby boomer self-absorption and entitlement.
—Meredith Blake, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Sep. 2023
Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2024
Monologuing about the minutiae of one’s DNA is self-absorption at, quite literally, the cellular level.
—Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2024
As Tanner’s novel explores these topics, its depiction of Jules’s relationships also highlights absurdities of contemporary culture and the consequences of self-absorption.
—The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
The show centers around Lauren Caspian (voiced by Woods), public radio’s third most popular host, whose self-absorption and haughtiness are matched only by the dulcet tenor of his voice.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 4 Jan. 2024
The play isn’t subtle in presenting its allegory of national racial dysfunction—the white family’s self-absorption in the face of Black suffering, and their swift move to commodify it—but Jacobs-Jenkins’s dramatic machinery is often immensely effective.
—Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2023
Its author, Dan Fox, works to separate pretentiousness from the many turnoffs the word conjures, like arrogance, self-absorption and snobbery.
—Jon Mooallem, New York Times, 3 Dec. 2023
For many, Yoon’s self-absorption and eagerness to target the media are reminiscent of the country’s mid-century military dictatorship, which lasted until the nineteen-eighties.
—E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2023
The interview went viral on Friday, prompting widespread criticism of Wenner and portraying him as embodying stereotypes about baby boomer self-absorption and entitlement.
—Meredith Blake, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Sep. 2023
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“Self-absorption.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/self-absorption. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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