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Winner of the 2015 PEN Center USA Literary Award for Creative Nonfiction"Daum is her generation's Joan Didion." --NylonNearly fifteen years after her debut collection, My Misspent Youth, captured the ambitions and anxieties of a generation, Meghan Daum returns to the personal essay with The Unspeakable, a masterful collection of ten new works. Her old encounters with overdrawn bank accounts and oversized ambitions in the big city have given way to a new set of challenges. The first essay, "Matricide," opens without flinching:People who weren't there like to say that my mother died at home surrounded by loving family. This is technically true, though it was just my brother and me and he was looking at Facebook and I was reading a profile of Hillary Clinton in the December 2009 issue of Vogue.
About the Author
Meghan Daum is the author of six books and writes a biweeklycolumn about culture and politics for Medium. Her most recent book, The Problem With Everything, will be published October 22, 2019 by Gallery Books. Her lastbook is The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion,which won the 2015 PEN Center USA Award for creativenonfiction. Her other books include the essay collectionMy Misspent Youth, and she edited the New York Times bestsellerSelfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the DecisionNot to Have Kids. From 2005 to 2016, Daum was an opinioncolumnist for the Los Angeles Times. She has contributed tonumerous magazines, including the New Yorker, the Atlantic,the New York Times Magazine, and Vogue. A recipient of a 2015Guggenheim Fellowship and a 2016 National Endowment forthe Arts Fellowship, she is on the adjunct faculty in the MFAWriting Program at Columbia University School of the Arts.Learn more about Meghan at www.meghandaum.com.
