My misspent youth
Subtitle: essays
By: by Meghan Daum
Edition: First Picador edition.
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9781250067654
Subjects: Social life and customs; Popular culture; Civilization; Anecdotes; History
Description: "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"--
Notes: "With a new preface"--Cover.

"Originally published by Open City Books"--Title page verso.
Table of contents: title: On the Fringes of the Physical World; title: Publishing and Other Near-Death Experiences; title: My Misspent Youth; title: Carpet Is Mungers; title: Inside the Tube; title: Toy Children; title: According to the Women I'm Fairly Pretty; title: American Shiksa; title: Music Is My Bag; title: Variations on Grief.