Novels and Catastrophe (with Heidi Julavits and Leah Price)

Episode 4 March 29, 2021 01:01:25
Novels and Catastrophe (with Heidi Julavits and Leah Price)
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Novels and Catastrophe (with Heidi Julavits and Leah Price)

Mar 29 2021 | 01:01:25

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Show Notes

Novelist Heidi Julavits and scholar Leah Price join our host, Nicholas Dames, to consider how novels help us make sense of catastrophe.

 

When Ling Ma's Severance was published in 2018, the idea of an airborne global plague seemed theoretical. In hindsight, it appears eerily prescient. How do novels like Severance guide us to understand our place in historical time—to process events like pandemics alongside the mundanity of everyday working life?

 

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