From Mitch’s Notebook about the episode

“Meghan Daum is somebody I became acquainted with as part of my ongoing love for creative non-fiction, the kind of prose that comes out of a meeting of literary criticism, personal memoir, the opinion column and essays, and some other genres thrown in for good measure.

Reminiscent of Joan Didion, George W. S. Trow, and others, Daum's nonfiction writing is thoroughly independent: she is beholden to no fixed political point of view or ideology and is always open to the newness of experience and what life might throw at us tomorrow but never so open as to lose an indispensable, critical skepticism.

Best and most of important of all, she is very funny and she is one of the best humorists in prose today.”

Her latest, The Problem With Everything, is her take on the state of the world of the past four years or so and there is in a large sense no better guide to such matters than Meghan Daum.”

Meghan’s Bio

Meghan Daum is the author of six books, most recently THE PROBLEM WITH EVERYTHING: MY JOURNEY THROUGH THE NEW CULTURE WARS. 

A Los Angeles Times opinion columnist from 2005 to 2016, she is now a biweekly columnist for Medium’s GEN Magazine. 

She is the recipient of a 2015 Guggenheim Fellow and a 2016 NEA grant and is on the adjunct faculty of the Writing Division at Columbia University’s School of the Arts.

She has written for numerous magazines, including The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, and Vogue.

Links to her body of work:

Twitter: @meghan_daum

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Meghan-Daum-44319076324/ 

Website: www.meghandaum.com