Sarah discusses her recent New York Times essay, "Hate Gen X? Get in Line (Behind a Gen X-er)." Why are young people lumping together Boomers and Xers? Why do so many Gen X writers spend time railing against "woke" ideas? Is Elon Musk more defined by being Gen X or by being a billionaire? And why do Xers find Millennials so annoying?

Recorded September 14, 2023

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LINKS

Sarah's NYT piece, "Hate Gen X? Get in Line (Behind a Gen X-er)."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/25/style/gen-x-generation-discourse.html

Sarah's NYT piece on not having kids

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/19/style/new-friend-children-conversation.html

Chuck Klosterman's book, "The Nineties"

https://www.amazon.com/Nineties-Book-Chuck-Klosterman/dp/0735217955

Big Fun, "Teenage Suicide, Don't Do It"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sO3WEfBIPvM

Sara's Substack, "The Real Sarah Miller"

https://therealsarahmiller.substack.com/

Follow @sarahlovescali

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