NP: Plague Reading

[Mateus Domingos]

Here's a mix created by always brilliant artist Benedict Drew, meant to
accompany self-isolation and social distancing-

https://www.mixcloud.com/benedictdrew/musique-pour-lintérieur-de-la-maison/

I'd also echo Jamie's mention of Saramago's Blindness.

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On Mon, 16 Mar 2020 at 10:10, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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