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Meghan Daum

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Meghan Daum is the author of six books including The Problem with Everything and The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion, which won the 2015 PEN Center USA Literary Award for creative nonfiction. Her other books include the essay collection My Misspent Youth, and the New York Times bestseller Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids, which she editedFrom 2005 to 2016, Daum was an opinion columnist for the Los Angeles Times. She has contributed to numerous magazines, including The New YorkerThe AtlanticThe New York Times Magazine, and Vogue. A recipient of a 2015 Guggenheim Fellowship and a 2016 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, she is on the adjunct faculty in the MFA Writing Program at Columbia University School of the Arts. She is also the creator and host of the weekly interview podcast, The Unspeakable. 

Meghan Daum Books

The Problem with Everything book cover

The Problem with Everything

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The Quality of Life Report book cover

The Quality of Life Report

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Waveform

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Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed

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My Misspent Youth book cover

My Misspent Youth

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The Unspeakable

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Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived in That House book cover

Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived in That House

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