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Freelance writer based in Chicago — interested in culture and politics, especially feminism and Asian American identity, public health!

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You Are What You Post: Kathryn Jezer-Morton’s “The Story of Your Life”

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By Anson Tong
| Chicago Review of Books Verified
Since its inception, social media has greedily subsumed our media consumption habits, our concept of the internet, and as Kathryn Jezer-Morton argues, our perceptions of our lives. The Story of Your Life traverses the various facets of life that have become fodder for posting, including chapters on celebration, struggles, home, and grievance.
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Emily Ruskovich’s “Nightjar” Knowingly Unsettles

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By Anson Tong
| Chicago Review of Books Verified
Nightjar by Emily Ruskovich is a collection of five short stories, distinctly eerie and beautifully written, with Ruskovich circling questions about knowing and unknowingly keeping secrets from the people closest to you. Each story is a quietly propulsive mystery, with characters often hopping between different times and reevaluating what they believed they already knew to be true.
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Monetizing Vulnerability

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By Anson Tong
| Mental Hellth
Anson Tong (she/her) is a writer, photographer, and behavioral scientist based in Chicago. Fortesa Latifi is a journalist reporting on influencer parents and their children. She is the author of Like, Follow, Subscribe: Influencer Kids and the Cost of a Childhood Online. Family influencers are now a multi-billion dollar industry largely built on voyeurism and selling consumer goods.
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