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b'Meghan Daum\'s latest book of essays is The Unspeakable.\\n\\n\\u201cAs writers we think, well there has to be closure, there has to be a beginning middle end, the character has to go through a change. And then in life we\'re supposed to have some sort of arc or aha moment, as if the experience isn\'t legitimate unless we get something out of it. That\'s so culturally constructed, as they say. It\'s so artificial.\\u201d\\n\\nThanks to TinyLetter, Scribd, and Oscar for sponsoring this week\'s episode.\\n\\nShow Notes:\\n@meghan_daum\\nmeghandaum.com\\nDaum on Longform\\n[1:00] The Unspeakable (Farrar, Straus and Giroux \\u2022 2014)\\n[1:00] "My Misspent Youth" (New Yorker \\u2022 Oct 1999)\\n[18:00] "All About My Mother" (The Guardian \\u2022 Nov 2014)\\n[35:00] Daum\\u2019s archive of Los Angeles Times columns\\n[38:00] My Misspent Youth (Open City Books \\u2022 2001)\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices'