Meghan Daum

1 week ago | theunspeakablepodcast.com | Meghan Daum

May 28, 2025, premium episodeThis week, I share an essay from The Catastrophe Hour. There’s no audiobook available (yet), so I offer this reading of the final essay in the collection, The End Of The Personal. It’s a meditation on first-person writing in a world that seems to have overdosed on oversharing. ​​The era of the personal is over. The writer sees this now. One day, she just gets it. Everything is personal so nothing is personal. The erosion has been a long time coming.

1 week ago | theunspeakablepodcast.com | Meghan Daum

By the way, this October 11-12 in NYC, The Unspeakeasy is offering a retreat unlike any we’ve done. It’s coed and it’s bigger than ever, accommodating more attendees and featuring lots of speakers. We’re still adding speakers, but so far the lineup includes John McWhorter, Carole Hooven, Mike Pesca, Peter Moskos (who was on the pod last week), Alana Newhouse, Andrew Hartz, Ben Appel, and Lisa Selin Davis.

3 weeks ago | theunspeakablepodcast.com | Meghan Daum |Peter Moskos

The Unspeakable Podcast is a weekly interview show hosted by writer Meghan Daum. It's a place for conversations with writers, scientists, philosophers, artists and all kinds of interesting people about topics that have been deemed "unspeakable." Of the many podcasts offering nuanced conversations, this is the only one with official Nuanced AF merchandise available at the Nuance Store. All archived episodes are here on Substack.

3 weeks ago | observer.co.uk | Meghan Daum

After the Los Angeles wildfires destroyed her home in January, Meghan Daum found herself mourning the ordinary things – a toaster, five bottles of wine, elephant-shaped bookends – that a life is made of On 8 January of this year, the house I was renting in Altadena, California, burned down in one of the seven wildfires that ripped through the Los Angeles area that week. In the bigger picture, the loss of my house seems almost incidental.

4 weeks ago | theunspeakablepodcast.com | Meghan Daum

The Unspeakable Podcast is a weekly interview show hosted by writer Meghan Daum. It's a place for conversations with writers, scientists, philosophers, artists and all kinds of interesting people about topics that have been deemed "unspeakable." Of the many podcasts offering nuanced conversations, this is the only one with official Nuanced AF merchandise available at the Nuance Store. All archived episodes are here on Substack.