{"product_id":"the-catastrophe-hour-isbn-9781912559688","title":"The Catastrophe Hour","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e–bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Unspeakable\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Problem with Everything\u003c\/i\u003e comes a new collection of unputdownable essays.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“For the last five or six years, on many afternoons around 4 or 5 p.m., I’ve been overcome with the sensation that my life is effectively over. Note the personal touch here. This is not a sensation of the world ending, which has been in vogue for quite some time now, and maybe for good reason. It’s a distinct feeling of being at the end of my days. My time, while technically not ‘up,’ is disappearing in the rearview mirror. The fact that this feeling of ambient doom tends to coincide with the blue-tinged, pre-gloaming light of the late afternoon lends to the whole thing a cosmic beauty, as devastating as it is awe-inspiring. As such, I’ve dubbed this the catastrophe hour.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWritten between 2016 and 2023, these essays are classic Daum, showcasing the author’s wit, her intellect, and her uncanny ability to throw new light on even the most ubiquitous of subjects. Delving into divorce, dating, music, friendship, beauty, aging, death and money, Daum’s unflinching honesty and exacting observations secure her reputation as one of our most important and enduring essayists.\"A brilliant, incisive essayist.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A master of the bold admission.\"—\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eEssayist, novelist, and memoirist Daum, host of the \u003ci\u003eUnspeakable \u003c\/i\u003epodcast, gathers 14 acerbic, intimate essays written between 2016 and 2024 on a variety of themes, including marriage and divorce, childlessness and motherhood, friendship and music.....Sharp, deft commentary.\" — \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“In these forthright pieces, Daum meditates on the vagaries of midlife.” —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"Daum is the rare contemporary writer who simply tells the truth in the unvarnished manner that inevitably hits the hardest.\"—Alex Perez, \u003ci\u003eWashington Examiner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"For 30 years, Daum has been an incisive chronicler of her life and times. Now, in an age that feels like an unraveling, in this book she puts her finger on both her unique experience and our collective one... This book is a beautiful object, and so packable it can fit in a purse. What a delight it would be this summer to pull it out and engage in that now-radical act of reading a book in public. \" —Emily Yoffe, \u003ci\u003eThe Free Press Guide to Summer Reading\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eMeghan Daum\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of six books, most recently \u003ci\u003eThe Problem With Everything: My Journey Through The New Culture Wars\u003c\/i\u003e, a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book of 2019. Her collection of original essays, \u003ci\u003eThe Unspeakable: And Other Subjects Of Discussion\u003c\/i\u003e, won the 2015 Pen Center USA Award for creative nonfiction, and she has been the recipient of fellowships from The Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.","brand":"Notting Hill Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304411451621,"sku":"NP9781912559688","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781912559688.jpg?v=1767738637","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-catastrophe-hour-isbn-9781912559688","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}