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  • The Rumpus Interview with Meghan Daum and Elliott Holt
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    Ryan Krull

    The Rumpus Interview with Meghan Daum and Elliott Holt

    Meghan Daum, the anthology’s editor, and Elliott Holt, who contributed its penultimate essay, discuss Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed.

  • Claire Burgess

    Never Change

    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 be truly unspeakable in our current culture is not when…

  • The Hole in the Fence at the End of N 7th
    M.C. Mah

    The Hole in the Fence at the End of N 7th

    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.

  • P.E. Garcia

    Daum-isms

    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 domestication are forever running into each other.” Of Nicole Kidman:…