Generation X

Notes on Instacore: The Social Horizon of Sensibility and a Sense of Self

Recently at a writer’s conference—AWP in Seattle, for those who are curious—I bumped into a colleague I knew […]

Nostalgia for Other People’s Nostalgia: A Gen X Disease

Boomer nostalgia is currently defining our reality. Trump is in office largely because a lot of aged white […]

“All the Hippies Are Executives Now, and Everybody’s Sold Out”: Late Boomer and Early Gen X Cinema in the 1970s and 1980s

In Garry Trudeau’s animated short film, A Doonesbury Special, the stoner ex-hippie Zonker announces to his group of […]

Confessions of a Middle-Aged Millennial

Occasionally, when I’m speaking to a class of 100 18-year-olds, I make the mistake of referring to them […]