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NEW PROJECT! THE UNSPEAKEASY

Meghan is creating a “heterodox” community for women called The Unspeakeasy. Learn about it here.

PRAISE FOR THE PROBLEM WITH EVERYTHING

An electrifying new book . . is a critique of feminism’s “fourth wave,” a social media-driven movement articulating not just the rights of women, along with microaggression concepts like “mansplaining,” but also the fuzzier tenets of “intersectionality,” a hitherto hidden matrix of privilege and oppression.” — The New York Times Book Review

At a time when nuance of any kind is often dismissed, Daum offers thoughtful takes on hot-button topics. — The New York Post

"[Daum’s] willingness to question dogma and call out virtue-signaling will infuriate some, but I found her approach affectingly personal, achingly earnest, and something close to necessary" — Vogue

“The Problem with Everything is both a stylistic tour de force and a lifeline thrown to those of us who feel like we’re drowning in nonsense.” — Geoff Dyer on his favorite books of 2019, in LitHub

THE PROBLEM WITH EVERYTHING, published in October 2019 by Simon & Schuster’s Gallery Books, is a poignant and powerful account of today’s social and political landscape. Wrestling with cognitive dissonance as well as a sense of Gen X obsolescence, Meghan Daum attempts to make sense of the current zeitgeist, taking on what she calls “the problem with everything,” a concept she discussed in her August 2018 viral Medium article, Nuance: A Love Story. In a voice that is thoughtful, funny, and bold without being gratuitously provocative, she addresses the Trump resistance, the Kavanaugh hearings, #MeToo, identity politics, women’s marches, sexual assault on college campuses, the “free speech wars,” the benefits and perils of social media, the role of comedy and, above all, the delicate interplay between human vulnerability and human resilience. The Problem With Everything is, at its root, a book about nuance—about calling out tribalistic click-bait and finding a way back to rational thought and intellectual honesty.

Meghan Daum is the author of five books, including The Problem With Everything: My Journey Through The New Culture Wars, which The New York Times named a Notable Book of 2019. Her last book was the collection of original essays The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion, which won the 2015 PEN Center USA Award for creative nonfiction. She is also the editor of the New York Times bestseller Selfish, Shallow & Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not To Have Kids. Her other books include the essay collection My Misspent Youth, the novel The Quality of Life Report, and Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived In That House, a memoir.

Meghan was a columnist for Medium’s GEN Magazine from 2018 to 2020 and wrote a weekly blog for Medium until early 2021. For more than a decade, she was an opinion columnist for The Los Angeles Times. Her work has also appeared in numerous publications, including The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, and Vogue. She is an adjunct associate professor in the Graduate Writing Program at Columbia University’s School of the Arts, where she was once a student herself.

Meghan is the creator and host of The Unspeakable Podcast, an weekly interview program wherein she talks with authors, scholars, scientists, philosophers, entertainers and others about “taboo” topics that nonetheless must be discussed if society is going to move forward. (In her opinion.)