Gia (Jia) Tolentino

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556 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 8 Aug

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Fresh Air · Best Of: Jia Tolentino on plastic surgery & AI / ‘Beef’ creator Lee Sun Jin · 8 Aug 2026 podcast

Yeah.

In a fr Yeah.

In a friend's apartment.

Yeah, you know, I I my then writing partner and I went with sort of the fanciest agent and uh who was like, You have to move out by upfronts.

And so we gave our jobs two weeks' notice and moved out here and I didn't bring my bed 'cause I was like, Oh, I'm gonna be like a working writer and I'll buy a bed eventually.

And

just nothing happened.

Like couldn't get the agent to return our calls, uh, you know, didn't really go out for any meetings.

And suddenly it dawned on me like, oh, I've made a huge mistake and uh had to start temping, you know.

And I in the meantime, I needed a place to sleep, so my then roommate's girlfriend worked at a hospital and she brought home a cot.

for me to sleep on.

I slept on it for probably a year and a half.

A year and a half.

Yeah.

I don't recommend.

You'll have like long time back issues.

And uh you know, was doing that for probably almost two years.

Uh i i the writer strike also happened.

Yep.

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