Alice Bolin presents Culture Creep in conversation with Sally Franson

From the critically acclaimed author of Dead Girls, Culture Creep: Notes on the Pop Apocalypse is a sharp, engrossing collection of essays that explore the strange career of popular feminism and steady creep of cults and cult-think into our daily lives.

Alice Bolin is the author of Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession, a New York Times Notable Book. She has been nominated for Anthony and Edgar awards. Her nonfiction appears in the New York Times Book Review, New York magazine, the LA Review of Books, and the Paris Review Daily. She lives in Minneapolis.

Sally Franson is the author of the novels BIG IN SWEDEN, a Twin Cities Live! Book Club pick, and A LADY'S GUIDE TO SELLING OUT. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, The Guardian, Best American Travel Writing, and on NPR, among many other places. She was a 2022 cast member of Allt för Sverige, a reality TV show in Sweden about finding your roots. She lives with her family in Minneapolis.

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