Meghan Daum: Essay-writing in the era of outrage
Description
What's the line between a personal essay and a hot take? Takes are written quickly, maybe flippantly, to latch onto a news hook. But essays are longer, more thoughtful and nearly impossible to write once a week.
Meghan Daum has done both. And her latest book, The Catastrophe Hour, compiles a selection of her essays from 2016-2023, touching on cultural issues and providing insight into her approach to essay writing, which eschews both moral authority and excessive self-deprecation.
Daum, who is not herself Jewish (but gets a title of "honourary Jew"), joins Phoebe Maltz Bovy for a discussion on opinion-writing, cultural representation and cancel culture and the value of being an "outlier" in today's cultural landscape.
Credits
- Host: Phoebe Maltz Bovy
- Producer and editor: Michael Fraiman
- Music: "Gypsy Waltz" by Frank Freeman, licensed from the Independent Music Licensing Collective
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