Meghan Daum
Host at The Unspeakable Podcast
Semi-public quasi-intellectual. Author of several books. Host @TheUnspeakPod. Co-host @specialplacepod. Founder @TheUnspeakeasy. Opinions might be your own.
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1 week ago |
theunspeakablepodcast.com | Meghan Daum
New livestream series The Unspeakeasy Live launched yesterday and will be every Tues/Thurs at 3pm ET. All are welcome to join. Videos will be posted the following day for paying subscribers only.
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1 week ago |
nottinghilleditions.com | Meghan Daum
DescriptionFrom the acclaimed author of The Unspeakable and The Problem with Everything comes a new collection of unputdownable essays: The Catastrophe Hour. ‘For the last five or six years, on many afternoons around 4 or 5 p.m., I’ve been overcome with the sensation that my life is effectively over. This is not a sensation of the world ending; it’s a distinct feeling of being at the end of my days. My time, while technically not “up,” is disappearing in the rearview mirror.
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3 weeks ago |
theunspeakablepodcast.com | Meghan Daum
Premium EpisodeMarch 31, 2025Time for another solocast, this time for paying subscribers only.
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1 month ago |
danieloppenheimer.substack.com | Meghan Daum |Mark Oppenheimer |Mana Afsari |William Deresiewicz
My guest on this episode of the podcast is William Deresiewicz, author of a number of books, most notably Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life, and the Substack newsletter Derisivist. Bill and I end up spending a fair amount of time discussing an as-yet-untitled essay of his that’s forthcoming in Salmagundi, and at what I'd say are the two poles of it.
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1 month ago |
open.substack.com | Meghan Daum
March 11, 2025We had another livestream this morning! I was joined by Erika Sanzi, outreach director of Parents Defending Education, for a conversation about what’s really (yes, really) going on in our schools, how parents can most effectively advocate for change, and why boys are falling behind and how to help them.
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You know the world hasn't completely ended when publicists are still sending pitches like this. https://t.co/bsKkHAw57N
Was fun to do this @nytimes interview about writing, reading, and my new book THE CATASTROPHE HOUR. Plus, this drawing makes me look younger. https://t.co/oHmUFHGFp1
Same.
I don’t understand people who keep the window shade down on a plane. We’re 35 thousand feet in the sky. You don’t want to check out the view? We’re above the freaking clouds, for God’s sake. Humans could only dream of a view like this for millennia. And you have the shade down.
