Meghan Daum Award-winning author, opinion journalist, editor, and teacher

This book is the eloquent testament of a card-carrying feminist who abhors the stranglehold that political correctness has placed on intellectual life in America. As such, it is to be applauded—and I do.”

— Vivian Gornick, author of Fierce Attachments and The Odd Woman and the City

Meghan Daum’s brilliant, captivating, and infuriating new book examines the fault lines between the feminism of her own Generation X and that of millennials. As I read The Problem with Everything, I occasionally paused to reconsider some of my own most closely-held truths, to yell out loud at the author, and—most of all—to admire her scorching wisdom and wit. Unsettling, urgent, and amazing.”

— Jennifer Finney Boylan, author of She’s Not There and Long Black Veil

Meghan Daum’s observations will stand in the future as a perfect encapsulation of how social media has transformed educated people’s sense of what it is to be moral in the 2010s. More to the point, this book shines a light on us right now, a brighter and more revealing one than anything on the Twittersphere.”

— John McWhorter, author of Words on the Move and The Language Hoax

Meghan Daum has a world-class BS detector. In elegant, incisive, often hilarious prose, she calmly applies it to the confusion and narcissism threatening so many of our most feverish, social media-driven debates. From the shifting terms of “fourth-wave” feminism to the paradoxes of privilege and the myopia of tribalism, The Problem with Everything probes a liberalism under assault from all fronts and in danger of falling apart from within. Nothing escapes Daum’s scrutiny—least of all herself.”

— Thomas Chatterton Williams, author of Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race

Just when you thought feminist iconoclasm had gone into retreat or extinction, The Problem With Everything arrives, slicing through the intellectual murk of outrage culture and edgy online wokeness. Daum is a virtuoso at rueful insights and self-interrogation, willing to risk upending things in the knowledge that ‘safe spaces’ and safe ideas advance none of us.”

— Laura Kipnis, author of Unwanted Advances: Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus

The Problem with Everything has the brutal honesty and rawness that will leave you examining your own thoughts and beliefs about the culture we are living in today. It forces you to ask yourself the question: whose side am I really on, and why do I have to choose one? I love how this book pushes me to think harder and be smarter.”

— Chelsea Handler, author of Life Will Be The Death of Me . . . and you, too!

“Meghan Daum’s 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

At a time when nuance of any kind is often dismissed, Daum offers thoughtful takes on hot-button topics.

— New York Post

The Problem with Everything is both a stylistic tour de force and a lifeline thrown to those of us who feel like we’re drowning in nonsense.”

— Geoff Dyer, LitHub

Affectingly personal, achingly earnest, and something close to necessary.”

— Vogue

There is no doubt Daum is a brilliant, incisive essayist. I would follow her words anywhere.”

— The New York Times Book Review

. . . Daum’s powers as one of the most exacting, mercilessly candid, deeply funny and intellectually rigorous writers of our time are on glorious display.”

— Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild

Thank goodness The Unspeakable exists to keep you company.”

— Entertainment Weekly

 . . . her prose is shot through with elegant and very funny observations.”

— Boston Globe

. . . a slightly more restrained David Sedaris… Meghan Daum comes off as  humorously dysfunctional and occasionally deranged.”

— Mother Jones

 . . . delightful and radiantly intelligent.”

— Los Angeles Review of Books

Triumphant . . she manages to broach each controversial topic — be it cream of mushroom soup casserole or her mother’s death — with an enviable exactitude that will have you thinking that you couldn’t have said it better yourself. (You couldn’t have.)”

— Los Angeles Magazine

Meghan Daum might just be the new Joan Didion: a whip-smart, incisive, and often hilarious cultural commentator whose personal essays will stand the test of time. Better pay attention.”

— Refinery 29

 . . . fiercely intelligent . . . it’s impossible not to wince, laugh — and relate.”

— People