NP: Plague Reading

[John Bailey]

Seconding Station Eleven - wasn't enjoying it for a while but it kind
of crept up on me.
Also Ling Ma's Severance.
And James Triptree Jnr's amazing short The Screwfly Solution.

On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 11:05 AM Gary Webb <gwebb8686 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Nice... also Philoctetes by Sophocles... or Oedipus Rex for that matter...
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > 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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