Her third book, a work of nonfiction about real estate and identity entitled Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived In That House, is due out from Knopf in June 2010. Her articles and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, GQ, Vogue and The New York Times, among other publications. Daum is also the author of the essay collection My Misspent Youth and the novel The Quality of Life Report. Meghan Daum's Los Angeles Times column was a 2006 finalist for a National Journalism Award and the winner of the Southern California Journalism Award in column writing. Future events include campus visits by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and author Rita Dove, renowned Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes, short story writer Deborah Eisenberg and essayistīelow is additional information on the symposium participants. The symposium, which is supported by Tulane's Department of English Creative Writing Fund, is one of several literary events Tulane will host this year. Tulane English Department faculty taking part in the symposium include Peter Cooley, T.R. “All of their work deals with the divulging of the self and making public that which is usually private, but they handle it each in their own unique way.” “It's a diverse group of writers who share a propensity for being perceptive, provocative, and comic, often at the same time,” says assistant professor of English Thomas Beller, who helped organize the program and who has published several of the speakers in his literary magazine, Open City, and on his website Mr. The event, Less-Than-Secret Lives: Symposium on the Personal Essay, is free and open to the public. 3 in Tulane University's Freeman Auditorium. Los Angeles Times columnist Meghan Daum, novelist and HBO series creator Jonathan Ames, film critic and essayist Phillip Lopate and Times-Picayune columnist and NPR commentator Chris Rose will take part in a symposium on the personal essay 10 a.m.

The Rug Merchant by Phillip Lopate