Flowers in the Attic with Julie Cohen
Sentimental Garbage
Justice for Dumb Women
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2019
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
*CONTENT WARNING*: FIRST UP, there's discussions of rape and child abuse throughout that some people might find off-putting. SECOND: this is a book where half the enjoyment comes from the many nutty twists and turns, so definitely read it before listening if you can. *END OF CONTENT WARNING* This week we're talking to author of Louis and Louise Julie Cohen about the 1979 gothic classic Flowers in the Attic by Virginia Andrews. The book was seminal to both Julie and Caroline, and tells the story of the Dollanganger children, Cathy, Chris, Cory and Carrie, and the three years they spend locked in the attic of Foxworth Hall. We talk attics, literary influence, evil women, and why so many teenage girls found so much to fantasise about a book about incest.
Music by Harry Harris, artwork by Gavin Day. Recorded at Acast and produced by Hannah Varrall.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to sentimental garbage a podcast where we talk about the |
| 0:07.9 | chicklet that made us who we are. My name is Karyhudunahue and I'm a |
| 0:11.2 | novelist, a journalist, and someone who has locked her four |
| 0:13.8 | illegitimate but charming children in the attic above your grandmother's house. |
| 0:17.6 | Today I've invited author Julie Cohen to talk the 1979 Gothic Horror Classic Flowers in the Attic. Julie, welcome to the |
| 0:24.8 | podcast and to my childhood. Hi little Caroline and welcome to my teenage years. |
| 0:28.3 | When I d m do to ask if you want to be on the other podcast because I've, you know, |
| 0:32.2 | singing you on |
| 0:33.2 | Twitter for a long time and really interested in what's in that whole head of yours |
| 0:36.2 | and then you said Flowers in the attic, my, I just transcended my body. |
| 0:48.0 | Because I didn't discover a lot of the chiklet that you talk about until I was much older in my 20s and at university. When I was at school, this was what we read, Flowers in the Arctic. |
| 0:52.0 | We passed it around. |
| 0:53.2 | I read that in Stephen King, and we passed it around, |
| 0:56.4 | and page 355 turned down |
| 1:01.6 | so that we could read it under the table in Miss Woods English class. |
| 1:06.1 | So I'm a little bit younger than you are, but this came out with, the hey day this was the 80s really, |
| 1:12.1 | came out in |
| 1:12.8 | 79 but then it just sort of passed between girls |
| 1:15.3 | in this very sacred way |
| 1:17.3 | so because I went to school you know in secondary school in the 2000s |
| 1:21.2 | I was the person who introduced this into my class. |
| 1:23.8 | Oh you're so cool. I was patient zero. |
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