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A master of the personal essay candidly explores love, death, and the counterfeit rituals of American life in this "brave, funny compendium" (Slate) Nearly 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 powerful collection of ten new works. Where her previous collection explores what it is to be a struggling twenty-something urban dweller with an overdrawn bank account and oversized ambition, The Unspeakable contends with parental death, the decision not to have children, and more-a new set of challenges tackled by a writer at her best, investigated in the same uncompromising voice that made Daum one of the most engaging thinkers writing today.
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.
