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    Problem with Everything: My Journey Through the New Culture Wars
    Problem with Everything: My Journey Through the New Culture Wars
    Problem with Everything: My Journey Through the New Culture Wars
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    Problem with Everything: My Journey Through the New Culture Wars

    Written by Meghan Daum

    Narrated by Meghan Daum

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    “[A]ffectingly personal, achingly earnest, and something close to necessary.” —Vogue
    “Personal, convincing, unflinching.” —Tablet

    From an author who’s been called “one of the most emotionally exacting, mercilessly candid, deeply funny, and intellectually rigorous writers of our time” (Cheryl Strayed, #1 New York Times bestselling author) comes a seminal book that reaches surprising truths about feminism, the Trump era, and the Resistance movement. You won’t be able to stop thinking and talking about it.

    In this gripping work, Meghan Daum examines our country’s most intractable problems with clear-eyed honesty instead of exaggerated outrage. With passion, humor, and personal reflection, she tries to make sense of the current landscape—from Donald Trump’s presidency to the #MeToo movement and beyond. In the process, she wades into the waters of identity politics and intersectionality, thinks deeply about campus politics and notions of personal resilience, and tests a theory about the divide between Gen Xers and millennials.

    This signature work may well be the first book to capture the essence of this era in all its nuances and contradictions. No matter where you stand on its issues, this book will strike a chord.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateOct 22, 2019
    ISBN9781508298533
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    Meghan Daum

    Meghan Daum is the author of six books including The Problem with Everything and The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion, which won the 2015 PEN Center USA Literary Award for creative nonfiction. Her other books include the essay collection My Misspent Youth, and the New York Times bestseller Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids, which she edited. From 2005 to 2016, Daum was an opinion columnist for the Los Angeles Times. She has contributed to numerous magazines, including The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, and Vogue. A recipient of a 2015 Guggenheim Fellowship and a 2016 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, she is on the adjunct faculty in the MFA Writing Program at Columbia University School of the Arts. She is also the creator and host of the weekly interview podcast, The Unspeakable. 

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    • 2/5
      I listened to about half of this narcissist outpouring from a bitter divorcee. No marriage by a normal and natural man to a person like this author of this book, could last for any significant time. There was a book that came out in the 1970s “Smart Women, Foolish Choices”. The poor guy who married this person did not read the book “Smart Men, Foolish Choices” because no such book exists to guide men how to avoid such narcissistic women, because it goes against the cultural grain. I say “person” because “woman” seems an inappropriate descriptor for this miserable product of - or victim of - the sexual revolution leaving her living alone and childless. . She - the author - is raging at the world, raging against her reality, that seems to be more her virtual social-media reality that has turned her into a radical misanthrope & misandrist through internet confirmation bias. I guess clinical psychologist & influencer professor Jordan Peterson would hypothetically conclude after listening to this tedious monologue “she has a problem with reality on a deeply religious level” . That does not mean she cannot be a gifted writer. I checked out a story on this writer Meghan Daub. “A straight-identifying woman who wishes at ties she were gay” Says it all. But that is not to say she’s not a brilliant and creative writer - which she clearly is. Brilliant and intelligent writers can still have bad attitudes. Her book seems to make sweeping generalizations about men to the effect that they are all rotten to the core. I would love to hear what she has to say about the Daily Wire / Matt Walsh’s viral documentary “What is a Woman?”
    • 4/5
      I liked this book very much. I listened to it, and finished it within less than 24 hrs. There isn't any particular chronology to the chapters, but that doesn't really "matter". Personal stories braid very interestingly with scientific findings and professional encounters. I appreciate Daum's frankness, but I don't think she is particularly courageous, namely because she isn't revolutionary, but rather summarizes scientific findings and presents them diligently.
      It's a recommended reading, might cause some controversy, but also a pleasant, well-phrased read!
    • 5/5
      I’ve been a fan of Daum since her first essay collection, and was very excited to read this new book! I really enjoyed her fresh perspective and her honest, careful approach to these topics, which I’m sure have earned her some backlash. It’s quite courageous (these days especially) to speak your mind when disagreeing with the common narrative.