MashReads Podcast: 'The Girls' is what happens when teen angst meets a '60s commune
 

MashReads Podcast: 'The Girls' is what happens when teen angst meets a '60s commune
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Emma Cline k**ws that being a teen is hard.*

"A teenager's brain is an oppressive place to spend a lot of time," she said.*

This week on the MashReads Podcast we chat with Cline about her debut **vel, The Girls. The book follows Evie, a teen in the '60s, during the summer when she finds herself pulled into a Manson-like commune. Join us as we talk about cults and communes, the complicated nature of friendship and whether The Girls gets the challenges of being a teen right.




And as always, we close the show with recommendations:

• Emma is reading The Great Fires, a book of poems by Jack Gilbert.
  
• Peter recommends taking time and just appreciating the fall. "I feel like fall is so lovely in all the ways that poets always talk about."
  
• Sophie recommends Zootopia. "It's a very layered movie!"
  
• Proma recommends the pilots for Pitch and Insecure. She also recommends the Twitter account Birds Rights Activists. "If you need to laugh, go subscribe to that Twitter account **w."
  
• MJ recommends 'An interview with the only woman Elon Musk follows on Twitter,' a hilarious interview with GQ's Caity Weaver after Elon Musk followed her on Twitter. Read more...
  

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