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The Quality of Life Report

A Novel

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New York Times Notable Book: A Manhattanite seeks Midwestern bliss and finds something else in this "funny, literate [and] often touching story" ( People).Television correspondent Lucinda Trout is unhappy about the superficiality and shallowness of her life in New York, not to mention the latest stratospheric rent hike. Seeking an escape, she proposes a new project: She'll move far, far away, to ... Read more

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New York Times Notable Book: A Manhattanite seeks Midwestern bliss and finds something else in this "funny, literate [and] often touching story" ( People).Television correspondent Lucinda Trout is unhappy about the superficiality and shallowness of her life in New York, not to mention the latest stratospheric rent hike. Seeking an escape, she proposes a new project: She'll move far, far away, to
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The Catastrophe Hour

Selected Essays

by Meghan Daum ...

From the New York Times–bestselling author of The Unspeakable and The Problem with Everything comes a new collection of unputdownable essays.“For the last five or six years, on many afternoons around 4 or 5 p.m., I’ve been overcome with the sensation that my life is effectively over. Note the personal touch here. This is not a sensation of the world ending, which has been in vogue for quite some ... Read more

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From the New York Times–bestselling author of The Unspeakable and The Problem with Everything comes a new collection of unputdownable essays.“For the last five or six years, on many afternoons around 4 or 5 p.m., I’ve been overcome with the sensation that my life is effectively over. Note the personal touch here. This is not a sensation of the world ending, which has been in vogue for quite some
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The Unspeakable

And Other Subjects of Discussion

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A master of the personal essay candidly explores love, death, and the counterfeit rituals of American life in this "brave, funny compendium" ( Slate )."A smart, strong and highly readable volume by [a] winning social critic." ― Meg Wolitzer, The Wall Street JournalNearly fifteen years after her debut collection, My Misspent Youth, captured the ambitions and anxiet... ... Read more

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A master of the personal essay candidly explores love, death, and the counterfeit rituals of American life in this "brave, funny compendium" ( Slate )."A smart, strong and highly readable volume by [a] winning social critic." ― Meg Wolitzer, The Wall Street JournalNearly fifteen years after her debut collection, My Misspent Youth, captured the ambitions and anxiet...
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Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed

Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids

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Sixteen literary luminaries on the controversial subject of being childless by choice, in this critically acclaimed, bestselling anthologyOne of the most provocative and talked-about books of the year, Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed is the stunning collection exploring one of society’s most vexing taboos.One of the main topics of cultural conversation during the last decade was the supposed ... Read more

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Sixteen literary luminaries on the controversial subject of being childless by choice, in this critically acclaimed, bestselling anthologyOne of the most provocative and talked-about books of the year, Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed is the stunning collection exploring one of society’s most vexing taboos.One of the main topics of cultural conversation during the last decade was the supposed
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Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived in That House

A Memoir

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From the acclaimed author and columnist: a laugh-out-loud journey into the world of real estate—the true story of one woman’s “imperfect life lived among imperfect houses” and her quest for the four perfect walls to call home.After an itinerant suburban childhood and countless moves as a grown-up—from New York City to Lincoln, Nebraska; from the Midwest to the West Coast and back—Meghan Daum was ... Read more

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From the acclaimed author and columnist: a laugh-out-loud journey into the world of real estate—the true story of one woman’s “imperfect life lived among imperfect houses” and her quest for the four perfect walls to call home.After an itinerant suburban childhood and countless moves as a grown-up—from New York City to Lincoln, Nebraska; from the Midwest to the West Coast and back—Meghan Daum was
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The Problem with Everything

My Journey Through the New Culture Wars

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“[A]ffectingly personal, achingly earnest, and something close to necessary.” —Vogue“Personal, convincing, unflinching.” —TabletFrom an author who’s been called “one of the most emotionally exacting, mercilessly candid, deeply funny, and intellectually rigorous writers of our time” (Cheryl Strayed, #1 New York Times bestselling author) comes a seminal book that reaches surprising truths about ... Read more

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“[A]ffectingly personal, achingly earnest, and something close to necessary.” —Vogue“Personal, convincing, unflinching.” —TabletFrom an author who’s been called “one of the most emotionally exacting, mercilessly candid, deeply funny, and intellectually rigorous writers of our time” (Cheryl Strayed, #1 New York Times bestselling author) comes a seminal book that reaches surprising truths about
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My Misspent Youth

Essays

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The cult classic essay collection from "one of the most emotionally exacting, mercilessly candid, deeply funny . . . writers of our time" (Cheryl Strayed, The New York Times Book Review).First published in 2001, My Misspent Youth captured a generation's uneasy coming of age as the world made its chaotic way into a new millennium. It also established Meghan Daum as a leading literary voice, widely ... Read more

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The cult classic essay collection from "one of the most emotionally exacting, mercilessly candid, deeply funny . . . writers of our time" (Cheryl Strayed, The New York Times Book Review).First published in 2001, My Misspent Youth captured a generation's uneasy coming of age as the world made its chaotic way into a new millennium. It also established Meghan Daum as a leading literary voice, widely
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Selfish, Shallow, and Self-absorbed

Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids

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Narrated by Johnny Heller, Jo Anna Perrin ...

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One of the main topics of cultural conversation during the last decade was the supposed "fertility crisis," and whether modern women could figure out a way to have it all—a successful, demanding career and the required 2.3 children—before their biological clock stopped ticking. Now, however, conversation has turned to whether it's necessary to have it all (see Anne-Marie Slaughter) or, perhaps ... Read more

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One of the main topics of cultural conversation during the last decade was the supposed "fertility crisis," and whether modern women could figure out a way to have it all—a successful, demanding career and the required 2.3 children—before their biological clock stopped ticking. Now, however, conversation has turned to whether it's necessary to have it all (see Anne-Marie Slaughter) or, perhaps
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Problem with Everything

My Journey Through the New Culture Wars

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Narrated by Meghan Daum ...

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6 hours 54 min

“[A]ffectingly personal, achingly earnest, and something close to necessary.” —Vogue“Personal, convincing, unflinching.” —TabletFrom an author who’s been called “one of the most emotionally exacting, mercilessly candid, deeply funny, and intellectually rigorous writers of our time” (Cheryl Strayed, #1 New York Times bestselling author) comes a seminal book that reaches surprising truths about ... Read more

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“[A]ffectingly personal, achingly earnest, and something close to necessary.” —Vogue“Personal, convincing, unflinching.” —TabletFrom an author who’s been called “one of the most emotionally exacting, mercilessly candid, deeply funny, and intellectually rigorous writers of our time” (Cheryl Strayed, #1 New York Times bestselling author) comes a seminal book that reaches surprising truths about
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My Misspent Youth

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Narrated by Xe Sands ...

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4 hours 3 min

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 remembered New Yorker essays about the financial demands of big-city ambition and the ethereal, strangely old-fashioned allure of ... Read more

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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 remembered New Yorker essays about the financial demands of big-city ambition and the ethereal, strangely old-fashioned allure of
... Read more
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The Catastrophe Hour

Selected Essays

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Narrated by Meghan Daum ...

Unabridged

4 hours 11 min

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Unspeakable and The Problem with Everything comes a new collection of must-listen essays."For the last five or six years, on many afternoons around 4 or 5 pm, I've been overcome with the sensation that my life is effectively over. Note the personal touch here. This is not a sensation of th... ... Read more

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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Unspeakable and The Problem with Everything comes a new collection of must-listen essays."For the last five or six years, on many afternoons around 4 or 5 pm, I've been overcome with the sensation that my life is effectively over. Note the personal touch here. This is not a sensation of th...
... Read more

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The Unspeakable

And Other Subjects of Discussion

by Meghan Daum ...

Narrated by Meghan Daum ...

Unabridged

6 hours 49 min

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. But Daum also operates in a comic register. With perfect precision, she reveals the absurdities of the marriage-industrial complex, of the New Age dating market, and of the ... Read more

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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. But Daum also operates in a comic register. With perfect precision, she reveals the absurdities of the marriage-industrial complex, of the New Age dating market, and of the
... Read more

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