Read here (BBC, April 14, 2020)
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Tuesday, 14 April 2020
The plague writers who predicted today
‘In uncertain – indeed, weird – times like these, as we increase our social isolation to ‘flatten the curve’, literature provides escape, relief, comfort and companionship. Less comfortingly, though, the appeal of pandemic fiction has also increased. Many pandemic titles read like guide books to today’s situation. And many such novels give a realistic chronological progression, from first signs through to the worst times, and the return of ‘normality’. They show us we’ve been through this before. We’ve survived.’
Read here (BBC, April 14, 2020)
Read here (BBC, April 14, 2020)
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