My Misspent Youth: Essays - Tapa blanda

"An empathic reporter and a provocative autobiographer... I finished it in a single afternoon, mesmerized and sputtering."

Cultural Writing. An essayist in the tradition of Joan Didion, Meghan Daum is one of the most celebrated nonfiction writers of her generation, widely recognized for her fresh, provocative approach with which she unearths the hidden fault lines in the American landscape. From her well-remember 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. With precision and well-balanced irony, Daum implicates herself as readily as she does the targets that fascinate and horrify her. "An empathic reporter and a provocative autobiographer . . . I finished it in a single afternoon, mesmerized and spluttering"-The Nation.