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
An Interlude Of Clarity With Judd Apatow | Encore
The Race Grows Sweeter With Mary Chapin Carpenter | Encore
Nursing A Wound With Jake Gyllenhaal | Encore
Are You My Husband? | With Renée Elise Goldsberry
Never Tell Our Business To Strangers | With Ruth Wilson
Who's Allowed To Hold Hands? | With Alicia Keys
Sharing A Cab, And My Toes With Greta Gerwig | Encore
Modern Love Presents: Kind World
Waiting For The Wall To Crumble | With Kelly McCreary
The Triangle's Sharpest Point | With Zawe Ashton
We'll Meet Again In Five Years | With Regina King
Words With (I Wish We Were More Than) Friends | With Ben Platt
He's Going Back To His Former Wife. Sort Of. | With Marisa Tomei
Rallying To Keep The Game Alive | Live At CitySpace
How 30 Blocks Became 30 Years | With Peter Sarsgaard
First I Met My Children, Then My Girlfriend. They’re Related. | With Kal Penn
Screens Between Us With Issa Rae | Encore
The Tallest Man I Ever Loved | With Andrew Rannells
Seeing The World Through My Wife's Eyes With David Oyelowo | Encore
My Platonic Romance On The Psych Ward | With Miriam Shor
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