Jia Tolentino, on the Unexpected Gratitude of Eating Roast Chicken After LSD

The first acid chicken weekend was just before the 2016 election, a stretch of time I now think about the same way I think about February 2020, a retroactive tinge of naive pleasure suffusing the period just before a seismic shift. Five friends and I had rented a farmhouse in upstate New York, a …

Jia Tolentino, on the Unexpected Gratitude of Eating Roast Chicken After LSD

The first acid chicken weekend was just before the 2016 election, a stretch of time I now think about the same way I think about February 2020, a retroactive tinge of naive pleasure suffusing the period just before a seismic shift. Five friends and I had rented a farmhouse in upstate New York, a …