NP: Plague Reading

[Gary Webb]

Nice... also Philoctetes by Sophocles... or Oedipus Rex for that matter... 

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> On Mar 10, 2020, at 7:58 PM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> 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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