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R. Jay Magill Jr.

R. Jay Magill Jr. is the author of Sincerity (2012) and Chic Ironic Bitterness (2007). He lives in Berlin, Germany.

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Let’s all be a lot less honest: Lena Dunham, naked selfies, and the irony of oversharing

R. Jay Magill Jr.

Jon Stewart, David Foster Wallace, Stephen Colbert, Jerry Seinfeld (AP/Evan Agostini/Flickr/Steve Rhodes/AP/Alex Brandon/Reuters)

Irony, sincerity, normcore: Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, David Foster Wallace and the end of rebellion

R. Jay Magill Jr.