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8 books that captured the mood of 2020

Chronicle Staff December 23, 2020 When describing 2020, most of the adjectives that come to mind are unprintable. But a bright side to this otherwise very bad year is a sense of shared experience. We’ve lived through it together. We’ve asked our writers to name a book they think best captures 2020. Perhaps it was through a scene that was a perfect reflection of our isolation, or a line that epitomized the political divide. It could be a moment that tapped into an emotion or mood that we all felt or a revelation about what it all might have meant. ‘What Happens at Night’

Solutions and Other Problems Vacillates Between Cynicism and Childhood Wonder | Arts

At some point, optimism becomes unbearable. On the cusp of adulthood, people often shed their naïveté for hardened cynicism, a transition aimed at reducing the potential for disappointment and harm. American writer and comic artist Allie Brosh is acutely aware of this progression, and leverages its complexities to illuminating effect in her new book “Solutions and Other Problems.” A combination of cartoons, meditative prose, and confessional essays, Brosh’s latest text challenges the formal conventions of literary and visual storytelling while providing a fresh — if at-times affected — perspective on loneliness, existential anxiety, and the disorienting absurdity of life. Similar to her celebrated comic autobiography “Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened” (2013), Brosh’s newest text is organized around eclectic personal experiences punctuated by philosophical intro

The best comics of 2020

On the surface, comics faced no more hurdles in 2020 than any other retail offering. As isolated people around the world turned to familiar sources of entertainment, distraction, and solace, comics were there for them, from nonfiction graphic novels to the latest dimension hopping adventures of eternally entangled superhero continuity. Even as COVID-19 safety measures began to set new boundaries on everyday life, the American comics industry seemed handily poised to keep making comics. The life of a freelance comics creator is already pretty, shall we say, “socially distanced.” Graphic novels flew off of shelves at an accelerated rate, just like their drab counterparts, regular old books, as independent retailers rushed to pivot their businesses in the face of shutdowns, and retail conglomerates reaped huge rewards.

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