The caller dramedy "Eighth Grade," astir a painfully shy 13-year aged stumbling done her past week of mediate school, is the archetypal movie for writer-director Bo Burnham and for its young star, Elsie Fisher. But there's much to the movie than the accustomed teen angst and acne. There's the loneliness that, probe tells us, is becoming much pervasive for young radical arsenic societal media increases successful influence. Tracy Smith talks with Burnham, and with San Diego State prof Jean Twenge, writer of "iGen," astir however the net is making adolescence adjacent tougher.
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