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Podcast: The Unspeakeasy With Meghan Daum
Episode: The Mortifying Ordeal Of Being Known: Writer Tim Kreider Visits The Unspeakable
Description: Even if you don't recognize Tim Kreider's name, there's a good chance you've read his work. In addition to his two collections of essays, We Learn Nothing and I Wrote This Book Because I Love You, he's published many short essays in the New York Times opinion section, nearly all of which seem to go viral. The first such essay was The Busy Trap, published more than 10 years ago, wherein he called out Americans' perpetual condition of being "crazy busy" as "a kind of existential reassurance, a hedge against emptiness; obviously, your life cannot possibly be silly or trivial...