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About my guest:
Tara Isabella Burton's debut novel, 2018's Social Creature, was named a "book of the year" by The New York Times, New York's Vulture, and The Guardian. Her second novel, The World Cannot Give (Simon & Schuster), was published in March 2022. Her third novel, Here in Avalon, will be published by S&S in January 2024.
Her first nonfiction book, Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World, appeared in 2020. Her fourth book, Self-Made: Curating Our Image from Da Vinci to the Kardashians, praised by Walter Russell Mead as "some of the sharpest and most insightful social commentary being written today," will be published by Public Affairs in June 2023.
Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The New York Times, National Geographic, Granta, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and more. She also co-writes the Substack newsletter "Line of Beauty" with her husband, Dhananjay Jagannathan.
Tara received a doctorate in theology from Oxford in 2017.
Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians