Subj : When reality is surreal, only fiction can make sense of it...
To : August Abolins
From : George Pope
Date : Sun Apr 24 2022 01:08 pm
> Hi All...
> When reality is surreal, only fiction can make sense of it...
>In 1353, Giovanni Boccaccio wrote The Decameron: one hundred nested tales told
>by a group of young men and women passing the time at a villa outside Florence
> while waiting out the gruesome Black Death, a plague that killed more than 25
> million people. Some of the stories are silly, some are bawdy, some are like
> fables.
> In March 2020, the editors of The New York Times Magazine worked to create a
> collection of stories written just as the pandemic first swept the globe. How
> might new fiction from some of today's finest writers help us memorialize and
> understand the unimaginable? And what could be learned about how this crisis
> will affect the art of fiction?
Hmm, I''m intrigued, & looked both titles up on Z-Lib -- nada yet for either. . .:( & it didnt offer me the option to request it, as it's done for me before. Oh, well; I've put both of these on my to-read list -- I love a good sety of themed short stories.
I found one, paperback, written by immigrants telling their stories from a subjective POV -- powerful stuff! Heartfelt & real. Here's the Z-Lib pagefor it:
https://ca1lib.org/book/6154760/cae595
A delightful reasd -- especi8ally the first story that'll really sdock it home to the reader about the emotional turnmoil & stresss many young immigrant women face, from whichever culture -- this just happens to be told from one.
>These Stories from Quarantine by twenty-nine authors vary widely in texture an
> tone. The work is a historical tribute to a moment unlike any other in our
> lifetimes, offering perspective and solace to the reader now and in the
> uncertain future.
> Table of Contents:
> "Preface" by Caitlin Roper
> "Introduction" by Rivka Galchen
> "Recognition" by Victor LaValle
> "A Blue Sky Like This" by Mona Awad
> "The Walk" by Kamila Shamsie
> "Tales from the LA River" by Colm T?ib?n
> "Clinical Notes" by Liz Moore
> "The Team" by Tommy Orange
> "The Rock" by Leila Slimani
> "Impatient Griselda" by Margaret Atwood
> "Under the Magnolia" by Yiyun Li
> "Outside" by Etgar Keret
> "Keepsakes" by Andrew O?Hagan
> "The Girl with the Big Red Suitcase" by Rachel Kushner
> "The Morningside" by T?a Obreht
> "Screen Time" by Alejandro Zambra
> "How We Used to Play" by Dinaw Mengestu
> "Line 19 Woodstock/Glisan" by Karen Russell
> "If Wishes Was Horses" by David Mitchell
> "Systems" by Charles Yu
> "The Perfect Travel Buddy" by Paolo Giordano
> "An Obliging Robber" by Mia Couto
> "Sleep" by Uzodinma Iweala
> "Prudent Girls" by Rivers Solomon
> "That Time at My Brother?s Wedding" by Laila Lalami
> "A Time of Death, The Death of Time" by Juli?n Fuks
> "The Cellar" by Dina Nayeri
> "Origin Story" by Matthew Baker
> "To the Wall" by Esi Edugyan
> "Barcelona: Open City" by John Wray
> "One Thing" by Edwidge Danticat
> Stories from Quarantine | Paperback
So that be the TOC? Do you havethe Z-Lib link? is it on there yet?
I searched the title only & set the publishing yeasr to 2022-02022, but nada matching -- lots of partial matches showed up, but not the one you're speaking of, & searching for the Decameron only broughht up a bunch of US political stuff.. .
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