If Polonius was into authenticity, then it was time I got out of it.
For the book's persistent question is: If Adam Gordon were able to summon himself into authenticity, would there be anything to see? Are we in fact constituted by our inauthenticities?
"Since millennial beer drinkers are into authenticity and heritage, and with Miller Lite being the original light beer, we believe this is causing a lot of interest," Jonathan Stern, the director of media relations for MillerCoors, told the Milwaukee Business Journal, in March.
But when you get into authenticity, there's a question about how signature number one looks versus signature number 500, particularly when the guy has sat there for two or three hours signing autographs at a show.
"Citizen" is a follow-up to "Don't Let Me Be Lonely," the poet's 2004 inquiry into authenticity in a post-9/11 world.
Over the last ten years, this tightrope once called "selling out," later rebranded into "authenticity"—has been the albatross of many of her female contemporaries.
As I began my journey into authenticity at the age of 46, I knew there were things I would never experience -- things that are somewhat typical of growing up female in a middle-class Kansas family.
