You know, it will be really traumatic. Any exposure to the substance that could potentially allow us to treat trauma.

Welcome to your roundabout, I'm your host Sarah Marshall.

Today we are learning about Go Ask Alice, which has been terrifying America's youths

for 50 years. Go Ask Alice was published in 1972. It has never been out of print since,

and for comparison's sake, the Beljar, which was published in 1971, and has also never

gone out of print, has sold over 3 million copies in its lifetime. Go Ask Alice has sold nearly

6 million. Go Ask Alice was published as the real-life true story of a real teenage girl who descended

into a hell of drug use addiction and a spiral leading into death itself, and it all started with

an LSD trip, and you will be shocked to learn that there is a relationship between this book and

the War on Drugs. This is part one of a multi-part Odyssey through this book. We're going to get to

the beginning of the Downward spiral, and I'm so excited to be going on this Downward spiral

with Carmen Maria Machado. Carmen is the author of many wonderful books, including In The Dreamhouse,

and I think that she's one of the most interesting people writing and thinking about horror,

and so it was a great joy to think about probably the most horrific book that has ever passed

for educational in the American school system. So relax into your shag carpet, have a bottle of

coke, and enjoy this episode. Hello! Hello, how are you? I am at this moment fantastic because

it is impossible to read this book without wanting to tell someone about like every third

sentence that you have read, and now I get to talk to you about it. I have highlighted so much of

this book. It's quite silly, actually. And who are you and what do you do when you're not talking

about this book? My name is Carmen Maria Machado. I'm a writer, I guess, and I have written three books,

Her Body and Other Parties, which is a short story collection in The Dreamhouse, which is a memoir,

and The Lolo Woods, which is a comic series from DC Comics. And I'm so happy to be talking about,

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