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Podcast: The Unspeakeasy With Meghan Daum
Episode: Audio Essay: The End Of The Personal - Listen to an essay from The Catastrophe Hour
Description: This week, I share an essay from The Catastrophe Hour. There's no audiobook available (yet), so I offer this reading of the final essay in the collection, The End Of The Personal. It's a meditation on first-person writing in a world that seems to have overdosed on oversharing. The era of the personal is over. The writer sees this now. One day, she just gets it. Everything is personal so nothing is personal. The erosion has been a long time coming. First, the personal became political. Then it became porn. Now it has become dust. ...