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2:30 pm
The Helix Center
New York, NY
February 10, 2024
Fractured: Covid 19 – Memento Mori vs. Memento Vivere; “COVID-19 Betrays America’s Cult of Curdled Optimism”; This Exquisite Loneliness; The Lonely Stories; 2020: One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Changed; The Quarantine Tapes; these titles were all attempts by our panelists to endure and make sense of the Pandemic. “Each of us adrift on our own ghost ships,” wrote one of them, Simon Critchley, in a piece called “To Philosophize is to Learn How to Die.” Another, Richard Deming, observed that “the writing life, the life of the mind, is not an escape or separation from life, but the way of engaging it, head on, no matter the weather.” This Round Table will focus on the literature that emerged from that time which – to be sure – is not yet over.
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Sno-Isle Library Conference, Lynnwood Convention Center
Lynnwood, WA