AS THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC SWEPT THE WORLD, WE ASKED 29 AUTHORS TO WRITE NEW SHORT STORIES INSPIRED BY THE MOMENT.

Contents:
Caitlin Roper - Preface
Introduction - Rivka Galchen
Margaret Atwood - Impatient Griselda
Edwidge Danticat - One Thing
Tommy Orange - The Team
Charles Yu - Systems
Karen Russell - Line 19 Woodstock/​Glisan
David Mitchell - If Wishes Was Horses
Colm Toibin - Tales from the L.A. River
Victor LaValle - Recognition
Mia Couto - An Obliging Robber
Uzodinma Iweala - Sleep
Liz Moore - Clinical Notes
Etgar Keret - Outside
Paolo Giordano - The Perfect Travel Buddy
Mona Awad - A Blue Sky Like This
Leila Slimani - The Rock
Andrew O’Hagan - Keepsakes
Rachel Kushner - The Girl with the Big Red Suitcase
Kamila Shamsie - The Walk
Téa Obreht - The Morningside
Alejandro Zambra - Screen Time
Dinaw Mengestu - How We Used to Play
Rivers Solomon - Prudent Girls
Yiyun Li - Under the Magnolia
Dina Nayeri - The Cellar
Esi Edugyan - To the Wall
Laila Lalami - That Time at My Brother’s Wedding
Julián Fuks - A Time of Death, the Death of Time
John Wray - Barcelona: Open City
Matthew Baker - Origin Story




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