The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion

Written by Meghan Daum

Narrated by Meghan Daum

A master of the personal essay explores love, death, and the counterfeit rituals of American life. -- 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. With perfect precision, she reveals the absurdities of the marriage-industrial complex, of the New Age dating market, and of the peculiar habits of the young and digital.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dreamscape Media
• Release date: Nov 18, 2014
• ISBN: 9781666606553

Meghan Daum

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 edited. From 2005 to 2016, Daum was an opinion columnist for the Los Angeles Times. She has contributed to numerous magazines, including The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The 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.