Overview
When reality is surreal, only fiction can make sense of it...
In 1353, Giovanni āBoccaccio 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 todayās finest writers help us memorialize and understand the unimaginable? And what could be learned about how this crisis will affect the art of fiction?
These Stories from Quarantine by twenty-nine authors vary widely in texture and 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:
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
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