Overview
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 created The Decameron Project, an anthology with a simple, time-spanning goal: to gather a collection of stories written as our current pandemic first swept the globe. How might new fiction from some of the finest writers working today help us memorialize and understand the unimaginable? And what could be learned about how this crisis will affect the art of fiction?
These twenty-nine new stories, from authors including Margaret Atwood, Tommy Orange, Edwidge Danticat, Charles Yu, Rachel Kusher, Colm Toibin, and David Mitchell vary widely in texture and tone. Their work will be remembered as a historical tribute to a time and place unlike any other in our lifetimes, and will offer perspective and solace to the reader now and in a future where COVID-19 is, hopefully, just a memory.
Table of Contents:
āPrefaceā by Caitlin Roper
āIntroductionā by Rivka Galchen
āRecognitionā by Victor LaValle
āA Blue Sky Like Thisā by Mona Awad
āThe Walkā by Kamila Shamsie
āTales from the LA Riverā by Colm TĆ³ibĆn
āClinical Notesā by Liz Moore
āThe Teamā by Tommy Orange
āThe Rockā by Leila Slimani
āImpatient Griseldaā by Margaret Atwood
āUnder the Magnoliaā by Yiyun Li
āOutsideā by Etgar Keret
āKeepsakesā by Andrew OāHagan
āThe Girl with the Big Red Suitcaseā by Rachel Kushner
āThe Morningsideā by TĆ©a Obreht
āScreen Timeā by Alejandro Zambra
āHow We Used to Playā by Dinaw Mengestu
āLine 19 Woodstock/Glisanā by Karen Russell
āIf Wishes Was Horsesā by David Mitchell
āSystemsā by Charles Yu
āThe Perfect Travel Buddyā by Paolo Giordano
āAn Obliging Robberā by Mia Couto
āSleepā by Uzodinma Iweala
āPrudent Girlsā by Rivers Solomon
āThat Time at My Brotherās Weddingā by Laila Lalami
āA Time of Death, The Death of Timeā by JuliĆ”n Fuks
āThe Cellarā by Dina Nayeri
āOrigin Storyā by Matthew Baker
āTo the Wallā by Esi Edugyan
āBarcelona: Open Cityā by John Wray
āOne Thingā by Edwidge Danticat
This book title, The Decameron Project (29 New Stories from the Pandemic), ISBN: 9781982170790, by The New York Times, published by Scribner (November 10, 2020) is available in hardcover. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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