It’s August 2020 and we are still in the midst of a pandemic. It has been said…we’re all in this together. Some of the most esteemed novels have been based on situations where the characters share a common trauma in a claustrophobic setting. Who will write the great American pandemic novel of our time?

What were we all thinking about before we started thinking about Covid-19 24/7? As Albert Camus writes in The Plague, wars and pestilence challenge our belief in humanity’s control of our future and catch us unprepared.