A Journal of the Plague Years: Final Episode

Tuesday, July 2, at 2 PM on KPFK: This the final segment of a series produced for our June 2024 Fund Drive, edited to combine discussion, performance and, yes, celebration of a terrific new book and, of course, an enduring and essential radio station. Please donate to KPFK and do purchase a copy of A Journal of the Plague Years. It’s a compendium of work which developed out of the excellent online journal founded by writer Susan Zakin. In this uninterrupted episode I begin by replaying novelist and memoirist Steve Erickson’s essay “On Fear.” The series concludes with editor and writer Zakin reading her essay “Modesty Blaise,” about her Covid-time discovery of the resilient “female James Bond,” and her co-editor Brian Cullman reading the final essay in the anthology, “All the Paintings,” a haunting and resonant piece about reemergence and disorientation.

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