What Just Happened
Author: Finch, Charles
ISBN: 9780593470206
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 12 Apr 2023
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback / softback
Plt;bPgt;APlt;iPgt; BOSTON GLOBE Plt;/iPgt;BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR P#8226; With unwavering humanity and light-footed humor, this intimate account of the interminable year of 2020 offers commentary on the COVID-19 pandemic, protests for racial justice, the U.S. presidential election, and more, all with a miraculous dose of groundedness in head-spinning times.Plt;/bPgt;
Plt;bPgt;APlt;iPgt; BOSTON GLOBE Plt;/iPgt;BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR P#8226;P#160;With unwavering humanity and light-footed humor, this intimate account of the interminable year of 2020 offers commentary on the COVID-19 pandemic, protests for racial justice, the U.S. presidential election, and more, all with a miraculous dose of groundedness in head-spinning times. Plt;/bPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;bPgt;Pquot;This book is so funny and so true. Charles Finch unpacks a year of plague, fear, shameless venality, and dizzying stupidity with an irrepressible wit and surgically precise cultural observations. I didnP#39;t know how badly I needed exactly this. Maybe you do too?Pquot; P#8212;Joe Hill, author of Plt;iPgt;Heart-Shaped BoxPlt;/iPgt;Plt;/bPgt;Plt;brPgt;P#160;Plt;brPgt;In March 2020, at the request of the Plt;iPgt;Los Angeles Times,Plt;/iPgt; Charles Finch became a reluctant diarist: As California sheltered in place, he began to write daily notes about the odd ambient changes in his own life and in the lives around him. The result is Plt;iPgt;What Just Happened.Plt;/iPgt;Plt;brPgt;P#160;Plt;brPgt;In a warm, candid, welcoming voice, and in the tradition of Woolf and Orwell, Finch brings us into his own world: taking long evening walks near his home in L.A., listening to music, and keeping virtual connections with friends across the country as they each experience the crisis. And drawing on his remarkable acuity as a cultural critic, he chronicles one endless year with delightful commentary on current events, and the things that distract him from current events: MurakamiP#8217;s novels, reality television, the Beatles.P#160;Plt;brPgt;P#160;Plt;brPgt;Plt;iPgt;What Just HappenedPlt;/iPgt; is a work of empathy and insight, at once of-the-moment and timelessP#8212;a gift from one of our cultureP#39;s most original thinkers.
ISBN: 9780593470206
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 12 Apr 2023
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback / softback
Plt;bPgt;APlt;iPgt; BOSTON GLOBE Plt;/iPgt;BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR P#8226; With unwavering humanity and light-footed humor, this intimate account of the interminable year of 2020 offers commentary on the COVID-19 pandemic, protests for racial justice, the U.S. presidential election, and more, all with a miraculous dose of groundedness in head-spinning times.Plt;/bPgt;
Plt;bPgt;APlt;iPgt; BOSTON GLOBE Plt;/iPgt;BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR P#8226;P#160;With unwavering humanity and light-footed humor, this intimate account of the interminable year of 2020 offers commentary on the COVID-19 pandemic, protests for racial justice, the U.S. presidential election, and more, all with a miraculous dose of groundedness in head-spinning times. Plt;/bPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;bPgt;Pquot;This book is so funny and so true. Charles Finch unpacks a year of plague, fear, shameless venality, and dizzying stupidity with an irrepressible wit and surgically precise cultural observations. I didnP#39;t know how badly I needed exactly this. Maybe you do too?Pquot; P#8212;Joe Hill, author of Plt;iPgt;Heart-Shaped BoxPlt;/iPgt;Plt;/bPgt;Plt;brPgt;P#160;Plt;brPgt;In March 2020, at the request of the Plt;iPgt;Los Angeles Times,Plt;/iPgt; Charles Finch became a reluctant diarist: As California sheltered in place, he began to write daily notes about the odd ambient changes in his own life and in the lives around him. The result is Plt;iPgt;What Just Happened.Plt;/iPgt;Plt;brPgt;P#160;Plt;brPgt;In a warm, candid, welcoming voice, and in the tradition of Woolf and Orwell, Finch brings us into his own world: taking long evening walks near his home in L.A., listening to music, and keeping virtual connections with friends across the country as they each experience the crisis. And drawing on his remarkable acuity as a cultural critic, he chronicles one endless year with delightful commentary on current events, and the things that distract him from current events: MurakamiP#8217;s novels, reality television, the Beatles.P#160;Plt;brPgt;P#160;Plt;brPgt;Plt;iPgt;What Just HappenedPlt;/iPgt; is a work of empathy and insight, at once of-the-moment and timelessP#8212;a gift from one of our cultureP#39;s most original thinkers.
