You're listening to Reading Glasses, a show about book culture and literary life designed

to help you read better.

I'm author, book devour, Mallory O'Mara, and I'm Brea Grant, filmmaker and e-reader.

This episode, we're talking about why authors use pin names.

People have written, they want to talk about this.

We're going to solve the mystery.

We're going to solve it.

But first, what are you reading?

I'm listening to a book called The 90s by Chuck Gloucerman.

Oh, I've been listening to it for a few weeks now.

Wow, this is a great book.

I grew up in the 90s.

I was ten years younger than 90s.

And this book kind of covers everything.

It's something I really struggle with because the 90s, we believed in a lot of different

things that people believe now, some good, some bad, you know, and it was of the era.

Things were of the era.

I mean, we talked a lot about selling out.

We talked a lot about the worst thing you could do.

Consumerism, which is different, I think, than capitalism.

And we talked about, yeah, now selling out, selling out, the 90s would hate Instagram.

Oh, my God.

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