Thread by @perej, "Are we already so rattled and addled by COVID-19 that we can [...]

Judith Pereira

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"Are we already so rattled and addled by COVID-19 that we can only read for things that feel relevant to it, even when telling ourselves we’re turning to books for imaginative refuge and rescue?"

@uStMikes& #39;s Randy Boyagoda examines the way we read during this pandemic. https://tgam.ca/2V3HXfY ">https://tgam.ca/2V3HXfY&q... #Reading

COVID-19 has changed the way we read

As the world fixates on the pandemic outside, plague literature offers a powerful remedy for our mental lockdown

https://tgam.ca/2V3HXfY

What are you reading these days? And does reading literature about pandemics and plagues feel like picking at a scab? @marshalederman found reading @pinkmeringue& #39;s Songs for the End of the World https://tgam.ca/3a6Zs3i ">https://tgam.ca/3a6Zs3i&q... oddly reassuring.

This Montreal author imagined the coronavirus ... six years ago

Saleema Nawaz talks with Marsha Lederman about what it’s like to see the fictional world you created come to life

https://tgam.ca/3a6Zs3i

"If someone could have imagined what we’re going through in such vivid detail, it somehow makes the situation less scary, less unpredictable, more knowable."

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