The Unspeakeasy With Meghan Daum

Writer and editor Thomas Beller joins me to discuss his new essay collection Degas at the Gas Station. The essays trace his experience of fatherhood through the landscapes of his own childhood, including the early death of his psychoanalyst father and Tom's later return—wife and ...  Afficher plus

Thanksgiving has come early! A year after bidding farewell to our much-loved/occasionally-<wbr />despised podcast <a href="https://aspecialplace.substack.com/" target="_blank" rel= "noopener" data-saferedirecturl= "https://www.google.com/url?q=https://aspecialplace.s ...

Why is it so difficult to find meaningful help for the severely mentally ill, including those exhibiting patterns of violence? And why has this question become politicized?

This week, Ben Appel joins me to talk about his new book, Cis White Gay: The Making of a Gender Heretic, a memoir about leaving one kind of cult only to stumble into another. Raised in a rigid Christian community, Ben found refuge in the gay rights movement and, later, the Ivy ...

My guest is Dr. Sunita Puri, a palliative-care physician and author of That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour. We talk about what it really means to care for patients when cure is no longer the goal, why our medical system resists honest conversations about death ...  Afficher plus