“Jordan Manalastas certainly has a gift for eloquence—if only he didn’t miss the point completely.”
—Katrina Murata

“He is so bitter and has accumulated so much regret that he is blinded: It distorts, bends and twists whatever he writes.”
—Iñigo Gallo

“[T]he product of ignorance and pathetic self-insulation from the realities of what the world is like…I’m thoroughly disgusted by [his] pompousness.”
—Flavia de la Fuente

“[His prose style] reeks of ex cathedra hauteur from one sweeping, unsupported generalization to the next, of which there are so many…it’s hard to believe that [he was] trying to make some point that did not pertain to [his] brandishing [his] stature as minor deity of the social media intelligentsia…

“But [he] seem[s] to be a man of the latest fashion, a ‘cocktail intellectual’ as [he] embarrassingly but appropriately put[s] it, a past master of the narcissistic posturing of the Brooklyn-Manhattan flaneur/foodie/dilettante left hobbyist…”
—William Kaufman

“[His] ignorance is almost as painful as [his] writing.”

Jordan von Manalastas is a writer and a lawyer from Los Angeles, California. A graduate of U.C.L.A. and of Cornell University, he lives in New York with his regrets.

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