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My misspent youth - Meghan Daum
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- 9781250067654
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Picador
ISBN-10
1250067650
ISBN-13
9781250067654
eBay Product ID (ePID)
208751533
Product Key Features
Book Title
My Misspent Youth : Essays
Number of Pages
192 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2015
Topic
Women, United States / General, Essays
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Literary Collections, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
5.6 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2015-022444
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
Meghan Daum is not an eccentric exhibitionist or a self-indulgent memoirist. Her world is suburban New Jersey girlhood, Vassar, publishing, and the disillusionment that results when the reality of one's life falls short of expectations. Daum approaches the first lesson of adulthood-that the prosaic will intrude on the fantastic every time-without ever dissolving into cynicism . - The New York Times Book Review "People I know still talk about Meghan Daum's 2001 debut essay collection, My Misspent Youth . Nobody writing about her generation was more incisive or entertaining than she."-Sigrid Nunez"For several years now, I've kept copies of some of these essays in a manila folder by my desk. When friends or colleagues ask if I know of any especially interesting new writers, I pull out the folder and head for the photocopier. Meghan Daum's essay "Variations on Grief" is one of the most stunningly honest things I've ever read. And throughout this book, there are a surprising number of moments when your jaw just drops in amazement at what she's saying. Even when she's being funny, her writing has a clarity and intensity that just makes you feel awake."-Ira Glass, host of This American Life, "Maybe you once found yourself in the dimming light of your twenties. And maybe someone handed you a copy of the book My Misspent Youth and maybe you thought, Finally, someone has written exactly how I feel. " -- New York Magazine "An empathetic reporter and a provocative autobiographer ... I finished it in a single afternoon, mesmerized and sputtering." -- Caleb Crain, The Nation "Throughout this book, there are a surprising number of moments when your jaw just drops in amazement at what [Daum is] saying. Even when she's being funny, her writing has a clarity and intensity that just makes you feel awake." -- Ira Glass "Meghan Daum is not an eccentric exhibitionist or a self-indulgent memoirist. Her world is suburban New Jersey girlhood, Vassar, publishing, and the disillusionment that results when the reality of one's life falls short of expectations. Daum approaches the first lesson of adulthood--that the prosaic will intrude on the fantastic every time--without ever dissolving into cynicism . " -- The New York Times Book Review "People I know still talk about Meghan Daum's 2001 debut essay collection, My Misspent Youth . Nobody writing about her generation was more incisive or entertaining than she." -- Sigrid Nunez, People I know still talk about Meghan Daum's 2001 debut essay collection, My Misspent Youth . Nobody writing about her generation was more incisive or entertaining than she., Maybe you once found yourself in the dimming light of your twenties. And maybe someone handed you a copy of the book My Misspent Youth and maybe you thought, Finally, someone has written exactly how I feel., Meghan Daum is not an eccentric exhibitionist or a self-indulgent memoirist. Her world is suburban New Jersey girlhood, Vassar, publishing, and the disillusionment that results when the reality of one's life falls short of expectations. Daum approaches the first lesson of adulthood--that the prosaic will intrude on the fantastic every time--without ever dissolving into cynicism ., For several years now, I've kept copies of some of these essays in a manila folder by my desk. When friends or colleagues ask if I know of any especially interesting new writers, I pull out the folder and head for the photocopier. Meghan Daum's essay 'Variations on Grief' is one of the most stunningly honest things I've ever read. And throughout this book, there are a surprising number of moments when your jaw just drops in amazement at what she's saying. Even when she's being funny, her writing has a clarity and intensity that just makes you feel awake.
Dewey Decimal
973.92
Table Of Content
Foreword 7 On the Fringes of the Physical World 13 Publishing and Other Near-Death Experiences 31 My Misspent Youth 39 Carpet Is Mungers 61 Inside the Tube 69 Toy Children 95 According to the Women I'm Fairly Pretty 103 American Shiksa 125 Music Is My Bag 135 Variations on Grief 153
Synopsis
Now back in print, author of The Unspeakable Meghan Daum's acclaimed cult classic that revitalized the personal essay for a new generation of writers 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. In this stirring and surprising collection we see the emergence of a talented new voice in American writing.
LC Classification Number
E169.12.D36 2015
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