The unspeakable : and other subjects of discussion

"A master of the personal essay candidly explores love, death, and the counterfeit rituals of American life. In her celebrated 2001 collection, My misspent youth, Meghan Daum offered a bold, witty, defining account of the artistic ambitions, financial anxieties, and mixed emotions of her generation. The unspeakable is an equally bold and witty, but also a sadder and wiser, report from early middle age. It's a report tempered by hard times. In "M...