A Partial and Official Library Catalog of Potential COVID-19 Literature

Authors

Ned Checketts, Sarah Lawrence CollegeFollow
Nicole Dähler, Sarah Lawrence CollegeFollow
Hazelle Gem Lacap Ferrer, Sarah Lawrence CollegeFollow
Sara Flaherty, Sarah Lawrence CollegeFollow
Harper Goldman, Sarah Lawrence CollegeFollow
Michael McCabe, Sarah Lawrence CollegeFollow
Niko Newbould, Sarah Lawrence CollegeFollow
Bridget O'Keefe, Sarah Lawrence CollegeFollow
Magnolia Robinson, Sarah Lawrence CollegeFollow
Liza Rosen, Sarah Lawrence CollegeFollow
Rachel St. Ours, Sarah Lawrence CollegeFollow
Rafaella Sverner Dhelomme, Sarah Lawrence CollegeFollow
Sam Taub, Sarah Lawrence CollegeFollow
Emma Tynan, Sarah Lawrence CollegeFollow
Myles Austin Zavelo, Sarah Lawrence CollegeFollow

Course

WRIT 3332, Building a Better Matrix

Faculty Member

David Hollander

Files

Abstract

While writers and editors and publishers all across our great novel-reading republic have sought to dissuade any and all literary efforts to commune with the COVID-19 outbreak (suggesting that it would be simultaneously gauche and tedious to chronicle this Moment via the edifice of books), it turns out that an entire catalog of COVID-19 novels already exists and has always existed, awaiting this juncture in space-time to reveal itself to a hungry (and restless) reading public. Herewith, then, we present a cross-section of that very catalog, a small sampling of those books that we presume (as we must) exist within humanity’s ever-expanding library, replete with hope and despair, tragedy and comedy, loss and redemption… the full palette of human feeling and experience. While we continue our efforts to cross-reference these offerings with more widely available library databases, we delay no further in presenting our findings to posterity, to a future which we hope will judge us kindly.

Publication Date

Spring 2020

Document Type

Fiction

Copyright

2020

Disciplines

Fiction

Recommended Citation

Checketts, Ned; Dähler, Nicole; Ferrer, Hazelle Gem Lacap; Flaherty, Sara; Goldman, Harper; McCabe, Michael; Newbould, Niko; O'Keefe, Bridget; Robinson, Magnolia; Rosen, Liza; St. Ours, Rachel; Sverner Dhelomme, Rafaella; Taub, Sam; Tynan, Emma; and Zavelo, Myles Austin, "A Partial and Official Library Catalog of Potential COVID-19 Literature" (2020). Selected Undergraduate Works. 10.
https://digitalcommons.slc.edu/undergrad_selectedworks/10