Meghan Daum is the author of seven books, most recently
The Catastrophe Hour: Selected Essays.
Her other books include My Misspent Youth, The Problem With Everything, and the award-winning The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects Of Discussion
NEW BOOK - COMING APRIL 15
The Catastrophe Hour
Written between 2016 and 2024, these essays are classic Meghan Daum, showcasing her wit, her intellect and her uncanny ability to throw new light on even the most ubiquitous of subjects.
Arranged in the order that they were written, the essays touch on themes of aging, solitude, creative life, money, the changing media landscape, death, and the meaning of home. Meghan’s unflinching honesty and exacting observations secure her reputation as one of our most important and enduring essayists.
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WRITING
Meghan is the the author of seven books, including The Catastrophe Hour: Selected Essays, forthcoming in April 2025. Her previous book, The Problem With Everything: My Journey Through The New Culture Wars, was a 2019 New York Times Notable Book, and her collection of original essays, The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion, won the 2015 Pen Center USA Award for creative nonfiction.
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PODCAST
In April 2025, The Unspeakable podcast was renamed The Unspeakeasy podcast and expanded to include The Unspeakeay Live, a twice-weekly livestream offering interviews, commentary, and audience participation. Launched in the summer of 2020 — otherwise known as the Summer of Podcasts. It features free-ranging, candid, Nuanced AF™ conversations with all kinds of fascinating people. Paying subscribers get full access to every episode, early access (usually the Friday before the official release date) as well as the ability to leave comments.
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COMMUNITY
The Unspeakeasy, is a multifaceted platform that fosters free thought and viewpoint diversity among women. The online community is a private social platform with a focus on viewpoint diversity, intellectual curiosity and resistance to groupthink. Members have access to discussion forums, book clubs, a professional directory, “coffee date” matching, off-the-record visits with well-known guest speakers, regular hangouts with Meghan, and more.
We also host regular retreats in great cities
PRAISE FOR ‘THE PROBLEM WITH EVERYTHING’
“An electrifying new book…is a critique of feminism’s “fourth wave,” a social media-driven movement articulating not just the rights of women, along with microaggression concepts like “mansplaining,” but also the fuzzier tenets of “intersectionality,” a hitherto hidden matrix of privilege and oppression.” —”
— The New York Times Book Review
