My Misspent Youth, Meghan Daum
My Misspent Youth, Meghan Daum
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My Misspent Youth
Essays

Author: Meghan Daum

Narrator: Meghan Daum

Unabridged: 4 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/03/2015

Synopsis

An essayist in the tradition of Joan Didion, Meghan Daum is one of the most celebrated nonfiction writers of her generation, widely recognized 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 center 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 Meghan Daum

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

Reviews

Goodreads review by Whitney on June 24, 2017

DNF at 129 pages. I bought this book because the preview I read of the first essay and tbh that was the only good one. I just don't like Daum's attitude. Her essays are very opinionated and I disagree with a lot of those opinions. Literally one of her essays was about a family of polygamists, which......more

Goodreads review by Ocean on June 11, 2008

UGH. this book makes me so glad that i left new york. why? because i'd have to deal with people like meghan daum all fucking day. people who feel the need to write 1000+ word essays on things like their hatred of carpet (although i know you carpet-haters like to pontificate on that subject), people......more

Goodreads review by Gadi on August 05, 2014

I don't know why I identified with Daum. Maybe I'm also obsessed with the trappings of life rather than its substance. I, too, pick my dreams based on a material understanding of things -- I strive for a life of hardwood floors, intellectual conversations -- a life of doing things for the sake of li......more

Goodreads review by Lori on December 20, 2008

I first read and really liked Meghan Daum's essay, "Variations on Grief" in my non-fiction class. Also, I really like the essay, "On the Fringes of the Physical World." The essay, "My Misspent Youth" after which the book was titled is making me feel a lot better about the amount of debt I'm in, whic......more

Goodreads review by Anders on February 28, 2015

quick&dirty: Meghan Daum is great; this is a volume of essays that hasn't aged well. Read the highlights featuring her signature radical honesty and skip the rest. Daum's voice in this 2001 book of essays has since come to constitute the dominant tone for borderline thinky online journalism with pre......more

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