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Modern Love Revised & Updated | Daniel J...

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Modern Love is a weekly New York Times column, created and edited by Daniel Jones since 2004. As it rose to popularity, it expanded into a podcast, a television show, and a book. In all its forms, Modern Love talks about relationships, feelings, betrayals, and revelations. Daniel Jones joins Google to talk about the anthology, "Modern Love, Revised and Updated: True Stories of Love, Loss, and Redemption," a collection of the column's most popular, provocative, and unforgettable essays, including stories from the hit Amazon television series.

Originally published in November 2019. Watch this episode at youtube.com/TalksAtGoogle.

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