Species Of Grief: The Catastrophe Hour Book Club Week 4
The Unspeakable Podcast
Meghan Daum
4.8 • 784 Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
The next meeting of The Catastrophe Hour Book Club is scheduled for Wednesday, July 2, at 3:00 p.m. ET. We will discuss the fourth essay of the collection, Species Of Grief.
The book club meets for 14 consecutive Wednesdays at 3:00 p.m. ET, beginning June 11. The book club is for yearly paid subscribers only, so if you want to join, please upgrade your subscription.
Species Of Grief was written in May of 2019 and appeared as one of my columns in Medium’s GEN Magazine.
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📖 Order my new book, The Catastrophe Hour: Selected Essays, on Amazon or directly from the publisher here.
📘 The Catastrophe Hour book club for yearly paying subscribers starts June 11 and will run for 14 consecutive Wednesdays, 3-4 pm ET. We will meet on Zoom.
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Stuff to read and listen to:
New York Times, Jan 31, 2025: The L.A. Fires Taught Me To Accept Help
Recent(ish) solo episodes:
- January 9: The First 24 Hours
- January 16: The Immaterial World
- January 27: Housing Wars
- February 5: Remembrance Of Things Past
- February 13: What Is A "Catastrophe?"
- March 2: A Mental Infection
- March 31: Dignity Is Out Of Style
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✈️ The Unspeakeasy’s 2025 retreat season is underway. It includes a just-announced COED retreat with more attendees and multiple speakers. October 11-12 in New York City. Programming and ticketing info here.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Don't take this the wrong way, a friend said later, but you seem more upset over your dog than your dad. |
| 0:10.6 | I did not take this the wrong way. I took this as a perverse article of faith. Losing a parent is terrible. |
| 0:18.6 | Losing a pet is shattering. |
| 0:22.7 | Hey there, before we get to this brief and extra special extra edition of the podcast, this is a |
| 0:30.3 | quick reminder that tickets are now on sale for our co-ed, bigger and better than ever |
| 0:36.4 | unspeak-easy retreat in New York City, October 11th, and 12th. |
| 0:40.7 | This will feature multiple speakers and accommodate more attendees than usual, but you still get the same small, off-the-record, intimate discussions that you can only get with the unspeakeasy. |
| 0:53.4 | Our speakers include John McWhorter, Carol Hoeven, |
| 0:56.7 | Rob Henderson, Mike Pesca, Peter Moskos, Alana Newhouse, Andrew Hartz, Lisa Selwyn-David, |
| 1:02.9 | Ben Appell, and myself. We're also adding speakers all the time, so you never know who else might be |
| 1:08.5 | there. This is a chance to meet and talk with your intellectual heroes, as well as connect with |
| 1:13.7 | like-minded, and also not so like-minded. |
| 1:16.5 | That's the whole point. |
| 1:17.7 | Free-thinking people from all over. |
| 1:20.5 | Space is limited, and we're already more than halfway sold out, so please go to |
| 1:25.1 | the unspeakeasy.com slash retreats to learn more and to sign up. |
| 1:29.8 | This is not cheap. I'm not going to lie. We don't do things cheaply at the unspeak easy. We can't. |
| 1:34.6 | But I can promise you that there is nothing else like this out there will be in a beautiful space. |
| 1:40.6 | We will feed you amazing food, real food, as well as brain food. And this is a great |
| 1:46.7 | opportunity to treat yourself in a way that you never have before. Again, the unspeakeasy.com |
| 1:52.1 | slash retreats. I am so excited about it and I would love to see you there. |
| 1:58.3 | Hi, and welcome to this special edition of the podcast. What you're about to hear is an excerpt from an essay in my new book, The Catastrophe Hour, which was published in April. I am running a book club this summer, where we read an essay each week and talk about it on Zoom. Since there are 14 essays in the book, the club will run for 14 consecutive weeks |
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