NP: Plague Reading

[Tyler Wilson]

Just to state the obvious:  a rereading of Foppl’s Siege Party from Mondaugen’s Story

✌🏼 — T

> On Mar 10, 2020, at 6:38 PM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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