My Misspent Youth: Essays Paperback – November 3, 2015

In this prose and interesting essay collection, the writer provides insight into American culture for both questions and problems. From the Gen - X perspective she focused on the changing cultural reality of the 1980 's and 1990' s. And it ruined my longstanding beliefs. In addition, she criticized the richness of the rich suburbs of New Jersey.

Although it may cause discomfort to some readers, you will soon see that the author sees your subject from the perspective of cultural elitism. I am glad that she is trying to accept Vassar and the New York elite to gain her own cultural maturity and self-right. In "Toys of Children", she learned that playing with a doll insists that she is simply to keep her forever. She was obliged to play oboe by musicians' parents, "Music is my bag", she was extremely disliked by the neurosis of music culture. In the article, for the author, "carpet is bouncing" and "carpet is carpet", which symbolizes all ordinary things and is therefore rejected. For her, it is an oak flooring and an oriental carpet - or nothing

In a more practical product "My Misspent Youth", the writer condemns the fact that New York City is hardly able to endure aspiring cultural workers - editing assistants, writers and so on. But she acknowledged that recognition of her right was supposed to underwrite a $ 60,000 debt for the three - year MFA project at Columbia University. "In the tube" captures the decline in the status of airline crews, but in a sense it is a typical American. a long time"

Love and relationships are reflected. She discovered that members of the Ravenheart Polyhedron Commune in California were cheating oneself that their multiplayer lifestyle confirmed the identity of outsiders self-declared. The author explains the need to find Jewish men at "American Shiksa" for poor American blond.

In the most interesting article in the series "The Edge of the Physical World", the author details the romance of her intense e-mail over several months. It goes beyond the real world relationship and only collapses after the meeting. She saw, "We need to use our needs to burn the fuse."

As the authors say, these articles comment on the authenticity of American life and the extent to which we live in fictitious stories. These essays may be a little arrogant with an idealistic tone, but they are insightful, funny, and even disturbing. They are easy to read

The prose like "Matricide" is standing firmly, but as I did in "My Misspent Youth", Daum wrote an introduction here. . "Like their honesty, they are not guilty," she said about these articles. "The heart of this book is about some of the hottest problems in life that are considered inappropriate even in public places or even private discussions." This is in response to parents' death This may be the case. There are some more subjective topics that do not eat or that some think Joni Mitchell is wrong.

Meghan Daum announced her first essay collection, "My Misspent Youth" (2001). In the title article originally written for New Yorkers, Daum explained her life as a writer in Manhattan in the mid-20th century, and it was easy to identify the truth from fantasies in a mythical city It is difficult. Can not you live a life filled with clever talks like Mia Farrow and lots of gin? For Daum, the oak floor apartment of Riverside Drive represents a practical "real" lifestyle, not a financial boom. However, the apartment on the upper west side is not like a huge mansion, but they are all built on wealth. As a struggling graduate student, Daum admires the lifestyle that will never be touched.

At other times, like the article "Failed Song" she is like Meghan Daum's self-examination, thoughtful, somewhat nervous approach in her wonderful collection My Misspent Youth. The Times magazine said, "The brain changes with singing." The feeling seems to be written to make me feel personally bad, "Caldwell wrote, she gave up the disappointment.