My Misspent Youth

The cult classic essay collection from “one of the most emotionally exacting mercilessly candid deeply funny . . . writers of our time” (Cheryl Strayed The New York Times Book Review).. First published in 2001 My Misspent Youthcaptured a generation’s uneasy coming of age as the world made its chaotic way into a new millennium. It also established Meghan Daum as a leading literary voice widely celebrated for her fresh provocative approach to the hidden fault lines of America’s cultural landscape.. From her 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 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.