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My misspent youth : essays / by Meghan Daum.

by Daum, Meghan, 1970-

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Daum, Meghan, 1970-

Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Essays.

Women journalists -- United States -- Essays.

American essays -- 21st century.

United States -- Civilization -- 1945- -- Essays.

United States -- Social life and customs -- 1971- -- Essays.

9781250067654 (pbk.)

1250067650 (pbk.)

First Picador edition.

xxii, 168 pages ; 21 cm

Originally published: New York, NY : Open City Books, c2001.

"With a new preface"--Cover.

On the Fringes of the Physical World -- Publishing and Other Near-Death Experiences -- My Misspent Youth -- Carpet Is Mungers -- Inside the Tube -- Toy Children -- According to the Women I'm Fairly Pretty -- American Shiksa -- Music Is My Bag -- Variations on Grief.

Meghan Daum is one of the most celebrated nonfiction writers working today, widely recognized for the fresh, provocative approach with which she unearths 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. She speaks to questions at the root of the contemporary experience, from the search for authenticity and interpersonal connection in a society defined by consumerism and media; to the disenchantment of working in a "glamour profession"; to the catastrophic effects of living among New York City's terminal hipsters. With precision and well-balanced irony, Daum implicates herself as readily as she does the targets that fascinate and horrify her. Meghan Daum's other books include the essay collection My Misspent Youth, the novel The Quality of Life Report, and Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived In That House, a memoir. Since 2005, Meghan has been an opinion columnist for The Los Angeles Times, writing on political, cultural, and social affairs. She has contributed to public radio's Morning Edition, Marketplace, and This American Life, and has written for numerous publications, including The New Yorker. She lives in Los Angeles.

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