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The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion (originale 2014; edizione 2014)

di Meghan Daum (Autore)

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"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 "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 peculiar habits of the young and digital. Elsewhere, she writes searchingly about cultural nostalgia, Joni Mitchell, and the alternating heartbreak and liberation of choosing not to have children. Combining the piercing insight of Joan Didion with a warm humor reminiscent of Nora Ephron, Daum dissects our culture's most dangerous illusions, blind spots, and sentimentalities while retaining her own joy and compassion. Through it all, she dramatizes the search for an authentic self in a world where achieving an identity is never simple and never complete"-- "Essays on American sentimentality and its impact on the way we think about death, children, patriotism, and other matters"--… (altro)
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Titolo:The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion
Autori:Meghan Daum (Autore)
Info:Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2014), 256 pages
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Daum hits a raw nerve. She's a great journalist writer but I hope her writing will evolve to be more subtle and literary. ( )
  monicaberger | Jan 22, 2024 |
Not really my kind of book. Of course I didn't read the chapter "honorary dike" that's just too pretentious. She is very privileged. An "animal lover" who, of course, eats animals. ( )
  burritapal | Oct 23, 2022 |
I became acquainted with Meghan Daum's work when she read at a 2016 Writers' Conference, a section from her essay "Invisible City," a very self-reflective piece on living in LA and the literary acquaintances she met there, including a rather entertaining if densely name-dropping starstruck anecdote. This piece is Daum at her best--a charming wit that can tell of the elite literary world without feeling exclusive. Unfortunately, this world as source of her content makes her stunningly ignorant in other essays and areas, as in "On Not Being a Foodie," where she is apparently unaware of the existence of those of other social classes and persuasions than her foodie friends, and "Honorary Dyke," which is at once offensive, an appropriation of queer culture, and thoroughly reinforcing the gender binary by means of Daum's insistence that she is an outlier from it.
Her perspectives are interesting and her craft smooth and well-managed, but her insistence on projecting her specific experience to the universal ultimately outweighs her skill. ( )
  et.carole | Jan 21, 2022 |
3.5 stars -- I just can't commit to whole numbers! This book of essays is very well-written, but I would be lying if the subject matter didn't rub me the wrong way on occasion. In one (less enchanting) essay about Joni Mitchell, Daum credits her with teaching "that if you didn't 'write from a place of excruciating candor, you've written nothing." Daum does just that. Some of her confessions are painfully honest, especially her reasons for not wanting children, and her involvement in and understanding of the foster care system. She does warn readers in her intro that "this book recounts some pretty unflattering behavior" and in that regard it is refreshing. She is not afraid to tackle tough topics (mother-daughter relationships, marriage) with honesty and candor. And she is good at letting the reader in on the joke. None of it is meant to be self-aggrandizing or preachy. Instead she is just sharing some observations and experiences and widening the reader's world view (micro-view, in some instances) just a little. Best of the lot was "On Not Being a Foodie" and "Diary of a Coma." ( )
  CarrieWuj | Oct 24, 2020 |
I am extremely picky about my books of essays. I like very few. I LOVED this one. I read them sporadically over the course of about a month. Sometimes I wouldn't even read a whole one at once. And yet, the thoughts and ideas and concepts not only stuck with me, but REALLY stuck with me. I ended up writing about a couple of her topics on my own online journal. This was really a very excellent read. ( )
  susandennis | Jun 5, 2020 |
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"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 "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 peculiar habits of the young and digital. Elsewhere, she writes searchingly about cultural nostalgia, Joni Mitchell, and the alternating heartbreak and liberation of choosing not to have children. Combining the piercing insight of Joan Didion with a warm humor reminiscent of Nora Ephron, Daum dissects our culture's most dangerous illusions, blind spots, and sentimentalities while retaining her own joy and compassion. Through it all, she dramatizes the search for an authentic self in a world where achieving an identity is never simple and never complete"-- "Essays on American sentimentality and its impact on the way we think about death, children, patriotism, and other matters"--

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