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My Misspent Youth

My Misspent Youth

by Meghan Daum
Paperback
Publication Date: 27/11/2015

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One of Flavorwire's 25 Greatest Essay Collections of All Time.

Meghan Daum is one of the most celebrated nonfiction writers of her generation, widely recognised for her fresh, provocative approach with which she unearths the hidden fault lines in the American landscape. From her well remembered New Yorker essays about the financial demands of big-city ambition and the ethereal, strangely old-fashioned allure of cyber-relationships to her dazzlingly hilarious riff in Harper's about musical passions that give way to middle-brow paraphernalia, Daum delves into the centre of things while closely examining the detritus that spills out along the way. With precision and well-balanced irony, Daum implicates herself as readily as she does the targets that fascinate and horrify her.

About the Author
Meghan Daum is a columnist for the Los Angeles Times, the author of Unspeakable, Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived in That House, The Quality of Life Report. and the editor of Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed. Her essays and reviews have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, The New York Times Book Review, Vogue, and other publications.

ISBN:
9781250067654
9781250067654
Category:
Literary essays
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
27-11-2015
Language:
English
Publisher:
Picador
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
192
Dimensions (mm):
207.26x141.48x14.99mm
Weight:
0.16kg
Meghan Daum

Meghan Daum is the author of five books and writes a biweekly column about culture and politics for Medium. Her most recent book is The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion, which won the 2015 PEN Center USA Award for creative nonfiction. Her other books include the essay collection My Misspent Youth, and she edited the New York Times bestseller Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids. From 2005 to 2016, Daum was an opinion columnist for the Los Angeles Times. She has contributed to numerous magazines, including The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, and Vogue. A recipient of a 2015 Guggenheim Fellowship and a 2016 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, she is on the adjunct faculty in the MFA Writing Program at Columbia University School of the Arts.

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