{"product_id":"what-just-happened-notes-on-a-long-year-paperback","title":"What Just Happened: Notes on a Long Year - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCharles Finch\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA\u003ci\u003e BOSTON GLOBE \u003c\/i\u003eBEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - 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. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"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 didn't know how badly I needed exactly this. Maybe you do too?\" --Joe Hill, author of \u003ci\u003eHeart-Shaped Box\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn March 2020, at the request of the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times, \u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eWhat Just Happened.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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: Murakami's novels, reality television, the Beatles. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat Just Happened\u003c\/i\u003e is a work of empathy and insight, at once of-the-moment and timeless--a gift from one of our culture's most original thinkers.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHARLES FINCH is a book critic and essayist as well as the author of fifteen novels. He is a regular contributor to \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune, \u003c\/i\u003e and the recipient of the 2017 Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing from the National Book Critics Circle. He lives in Los Angeles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.94 x 7.87 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 28, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47178606739705,"sku":"9780593470206","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/eVdLejVPaXNtYmNXbEh6M0FMekdKQT09.webp?v=1767726593","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/what-just-happened-notes-on-a-long-year-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}