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Flowers in the Attic: Gen X Summer School 2 (opens the original)
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Who let us read this stuff?! It's the Gen X classic Flowers in the Attic , V.C. Andrews's introduction to puberty with a side of incest, wrapped in a faux-gothic nightmare. Join my guests for a rip-roaring ride through this book that got passed from girl clique to girl clique, and influenced a generation. My "guest lecturers" for Summer School: Jen Capra is an Emmy nominated Sesame Street writer, aspiring author, and content creator-slash-professional starving artist. You can find her at , as we
Stephen King's Night Shift: Gen X Summer School 1 (opens the original)
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Stephen King, the father of Generation X's nightmares--and an obvious first class for Gen X Summer School! Join my guests and I as we dig into Night Shift , an early compilation of King's short stories. It includes the material for so many of his later masterpieces ( Salem's Lot, Children of the Corn, The Stand ), along with many of his misfires ( Maximum Overdrive, The Lawnmower Man ). Who let us read this stuff? And how did it shape a generation of young readers? My "guest lecturers" for Summe
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