NP: Plague Reading

[Mark Thibodeau]

Has anyone mentioned Poe's Masque of the Red Death?

On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 7:55 PM Richard Romeo <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Captain Trips, baby
>
>
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> > 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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