NP: Plague Reading

[Mark Thibodeau]

Well, by rights, if we're adding Laurie Anderson for her "language is a
virus" bit, then we ought to definitely be adding William S. Burroughs,
from whom she borrowed the concept (with his permission of course).

Jerky

On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 6:06 PM Erik T. Burns <eburns at gmail.com> wrote:

> CAPTAIN TRUMPS, this one
>
> I love the first 300 pages of The Stand, it's just a brilliant composition
> on how a virus spreads...
>
> Add Laurie Anderson to the "reading" list; language is a virus
>
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 11:56 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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