About us
Things are weird. The adults are all gone. We've been left to fend for ourselves by the light of an empty fridge.
Gen X was made for this. We got ourselves to the mall food court, looking for each other without appearing to care. Let's read Gen X literature. Let's discuss it as if it's real. As our ultimate rebellious act in a dying world we'll make it so.
Once we find a couple of interested people we'll crack open Eggers, Wurtzel, Safran Foer. Hewlett & Martin. If all goes well and follows in reasonable order we'll start with early Gen X authors and move to the later. Maybe rinse with something hopeish from outside the timeline, like Allie Brosh.
But when does it all go well and follow in reasonable order?
Sign up now before it's too late.
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We will be discussing books related to Generation X. FUSION (700-708 1st st. NW 87102) will host our monthly club meetings on Sundays from 11am - 1pm. You're welcome to BYO snacks and drinks, or even some to share.
Look in the photos section for our current reading list. If you have reading suggestions please send them to genxbookclub@gmail.com, and keep in mind:
> Authors should be born between 1960 and 1980. Outliers will want good reasons to be included. Any books over 400 pages may be discussed over multiple months.
> Folks are welcome to attend even if they haven't finished the book, and audio versions are fair game.
> We're looking for discussion above agreement, but if someone is mean they will be sent to a corner. Disagreement is encouraged as long as it remains respectful.
> Feel free to post your own book recommendations in the discussion section! A couple of nonfiction favorites from outside the timeline if you're looking for background reads:
> The Fourth Turning by Strauss and Howe
> When Society Becomes an Addict, by Anne Wilson Schaef
Upcoming events
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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller
Fusion ABQ, FUSION ABQ Cox R L Fur & Hide, 708 1st St NW, Albuquerque, NM, USDon't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight is Alexandra Fuller's unflinching memoir of growing up white in Africa during the final, violent decades of colonial rule — spanning Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), Zambia, and Malawi in the 1970s and 80s. Fuller recounts her unconventional, often dangerous childhood with remarkable candor: a mercurial, hard-drinking mother, a father who farmed land soaked in the blood of civil war, and a family held together by stubbornness and love even as the world around them collapsed.
What makes the book extraordinary is Fuller's refusal to sentimentalize or condemn. She writes about white settler life — its privileges, its blindness, its strange tenderness — with the clear eyes of someone who has had decades to reckon with what she witnessed. The result is a portrait of place and family that is brutal, funny, and deeply human.Here’s a book review: https://readingtheend.com/2014/06/30/review-dont-lets-go-to-the-dogs-tonight-alexandra-fuller/ and an interview with the author: https://www.indiebound.org/author-interviews/fulleralexandra
There is also a 2024 film adaptation available on Netflix https://www.netflix.com/title/82177696#lodp-trailers
We are a media-positive book group. Prepare yourself for lively, non-disrespectful discussion - and BYO snacks and beverages!
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Past events
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