misspent

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She documented her salad days of debt and dating in New York in “My Misspent Youth.”

From The New Yorker • Nov. 1, 2019

Even the exceptions to the genre prove the rule, like Meghan Daum’s excellent “My Misspent Youth,” published in the New Yorker a year after Passaro wrote his Harper’s confessional.

From Slate • Apr. 21, 2016

Essays like “Matricide” stand firmly on their own, but as she did in “My Misspent Youth,” Ms. Daum has written an introduction here that defensively and needlessly attempts to predigest the collection.

From New York Times • Dec. 10, 2014

Ms. Daum’s 2001 essay collection, “My Misspent Youth,” arrived before the Internet launched a thousand candid writing careers.

From New York Times • Dec. 10, 2014

The line under his last appearance is "The End of a Misspent Life."

From Ma Pettengill by Wilson, Harry Leon