NP: Plague Reading

[Richard Romeo]

Captain Trips, baby



> On Mar 10, 2020, at 7:44 PM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> (huh, huh) What about Stephen King's The Stand? (huh, huh)
> 
> Too lowbrow? Or just too effing LOOOOONG?
> 
> Jerky
> 
>> On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 1:56 PM Becky Lindroos <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>
>> wrote:
>> 
>> Much more recent but Station Eleven by Emily St. John (2015) is very good!
>> 
>> “a mysterious Georgian Flu is spreading rapidly and will soon become a
>> full-blown pandemic.”
>> 
>> The novel won the Arthur C. Clarke Award in May 2015, beating novels
>> including The Girl with All the Gifts and Memory of Water.[16] The
>> committee highlighted the novel's focus on the survival of human culture
>> after an apocalypse, as opposed to the survival of humanity itself.[16] The
>> novel was also a finalist for the National Book Award, ultimately losing to
>> Phil Klay's short story cycle Redeployment.[17] It was also a finalist for
>> the PEN/Faulkner Award, as well as the Baileys Women's Prize for
>> Fiction.[18]
>> 
>> The novel won the Toronto Book Award in October 2015.[19]
>> 
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Station_Eleven
>> 
>> Becky
>> 
>>>> On Mar 10, 2020, at 10:38 AM, RZ <robert.zutphen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> And George R Stewart’s “Earth Abides.”
>>> 
>>>> On Mar 10, 2020, at 10:55 AM, Heikki R <
>> situations.journeys.comedy at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> And Defoe's haunting & unsentimental "Journal".
>>>> 
>>>> ti 10. maalisk. 2020 klo 17.40 Gary Webb <gwebb8686 at gmail.com>
>> kirjoitti:
>>>> 
>>>>> Though not explicitly plague lit but The Name of the Rose...especially
>> as
>>>>> Italy succumbs to CoVid-19...
>>>>> 
>>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Mar 10, 2020, at 11:23 AM, Thomas Eckhardt <
>>>>> thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Albert Camus comes to mind...
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Am 10.03.2020 um 16:17 schrieb Smoke Teff:
>>>>>>> Using the coronavirus as an excuse to finish The Decameron after
>>>>> starting it years ago.
>>>>>>> Any other good pandemic lit? All genres and pub dates welcome.
>>>>> 
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