Catastrophe Hour: Selected Essays

From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Unspeakable and The Problem with Everything comes a new collection of unputdownable essays. "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." Written 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.