On Not Having Kids

The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 30, 2015

Meghan Daum, an essayist, novelist and the editor of Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids  (Picador, 2015), and Tim Kreider, a writer, cartoonist, the author of We Learn Nothing: Essays and Cartoons (2012) and a contributor to Selfish, Shallow and Self-Absorbed discuss why love and marriage doesn’t always lead to a baby carriage.

→ Event: Meghan Daum and other contributors host a book launch party on Tuesday, March 31st 7 p.m. at Housing Works Bookstore

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