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