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Meghan Daum

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This Week in Short Fiction

  • Claire Burgess
  • September 4, 2015
If you’re a woman over the age of 25, you are familiar with the pressure to procreate. The parental inquiries of when you’ll be settling down, when you’ll give them…
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A Life in Non-Fiction

  • Guia Cortassa
  • June 4, 2015
I’ve always been a late bloomer in some ways, and extremely precocious in other ways. When I was twenty I was living in New York and working a job and…
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Childless Spinsters

  • Guia Cortassa
  • May 12, 2015
Not getting married and not having children are still controversial decisions for women. Over at the Los Angeles Review of Books, Minda Honey shares her own experience, and reviews three recent…
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Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed edited by Meghan Daum

  • Heather Partington
  • April 19, 2015
Daum’s collection is at its best when it’s being the most transparent and unapologetic.
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Never Change

  • Claire Burgess
  • January 9, 2015
The LA Review of Books talks with Meghan Daum about her wildly successful new essay collection, The Unspeakable, catharsis, and redemption (or the lack thereof): I think what tends to…
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The Hole in the Fence at the End of N 7th

  • M.C. Mah
  • January 8, 2015
I only know one parlor game and it is looking around at young people, feeling deeply in-the-know about their being in endless, pointless distress over insufficiently expressing themselves.
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Daum-isms

  • P.E. Garcia
  • December 1, 2014
Just to throw out a few other Daum-isms—here’s her description of Anthropologie: “A twirling motion in the form of an international brand”. Of Los Angeles: “a place where wildness and…
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Lydia Kiesling Is Not Done Reading

  • Alex Norcia
  • November 20, 2014
Lydia Kiesling discovered Meghan Daum after reading the writer’s profile of Lena Dunham in a recent issue of the New York Times Magazine. As she chronicles in Salon, she didn’t…
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Good Riddance to the Goodbye-to-New-York Essay

  • Jason Arthur
  • November 20, 2014
Joan Didion's "Goodbye to All That" has spawned a new literary genre: the personal screed about loving (or leaving) New York City.
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Honest to a Fault

  • Bryan Washington
  • September 16, 2014
You probably knew that Lena Dunham wrote a memoir (if you didn’t, she has), but she’d love to remind you why she’s qualified. Meghan Daum elaborates for the New York Times Magazine: To…
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On Being A “Vile, Loathsome, Despicable Pig”

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • January 3, 2013
Via Verge‘s best-of-2012 list, here’s an essay by Meghan Daum about the lakes of vitriol that make up so many online comments sections. She compares the unfavorable reaction to a somewhat…
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