In defense of the narcissism of the selfie

I’ve never really been on board with selfies. If you’ve read my adaptation of The Green Bird, you know there’s a running gag with a narcissistic character doing the period equivalent version of a selfie. When my cousins were teens and they used to post hundreds and hundreds of selfies a day or spend hours in the bathroom taking pictures, I couldn’t even remotely relate. But while I don’t think I’ll ever be on board with the national selfie obsession (or the pictures of food, while we’re on th...