It s a report tempered by hard times. In Matricide, Daum unflinchingly describes a parent s death and the uncomfortable emotions it provokes; and in Diary of a Coma she relates her own journey to the twilight of the mind. But Daum also operates in a comic register. With perfect precision, she reveal[...]

"Daum is her generation's Joan Didion." --"Nylon"
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 masterful collection of ten new works. Her old enc[...]

Cultural Writing. 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-remember New Yo[...]