When Daniel Jones started the Modern Love column in 2004, he opened the call for submissions and hoped the idea would catch on. Twenty years later, over a thousand Modern Love essays have been published in The New York Times, and the column is a trove of real-life love stories.
Dan has put so much of himself into editing the column over the years, but as he tells our host, Anna Martin, the column has influenced him, too. Today, Dan shares three Modern Love essays that have changed the way he thinks about love and relationships in his own life.
Also, Anna announces the beginning of a special series of episodes celebrating Modern Love’s 20th anniversary.
The Modern Love essays mentioned in this episode are:
One Bouquet of Fleeting Beauty, Please
Nursing a Wound in an Appropriate Setting
My First Lesson in Motherhood
Encore: When Two Open Marriages Collide
Falling for Your Sperm Donor
What to Do With the Time We Get
The Internet Still Thinks I'm Pregnant
Not the Daughter She Wanted
Encore: A Lifetime of Good Loving
When the Music Stopped
How to Learn My Love Language
One Last Haircut
How to Feel Yourself
Could I Forgive Him One Last Time?
How to Find the One
The Shame Game
A Mother's Secret
‘Do It, I Dare You.’
Left to Be Found
Only With Distance
A Younger Man
Marriage Classes at Guantánamo
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