Covid and Literature

Covid and Literature
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.
*Titles by these authors will be available to purchase at the event.
Participants:
Simon Critchley
Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy, New School for Social Research
Richard Deming
Poet & Critic
Eric Klinenberg
Helen Gould Shepard Professor in the Social Sciences, New York University
Director, Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University
Daphne Merkin
Novelist & Critic
Maria G Pisano
Book Artist, Printmaker, Curator & Educator

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