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.
- ISBN10 1890447269
- ISBN13 9781890447267
- Publish Date 2 March 2001
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 18 February 2016
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Open City Books
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 200
- Language English