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Book cover for "The Decameron project".
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Presents a collection of short stories originally commissioned by "The New York Times Magazine" as the COVID-19 pandemic swept the world, from twenty-nine authors including Margaret Atwood, Tommy Orange, Edwidge Danticat, and more, in a project inspired by Boccaccio's "The Decameron."
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Publisher:
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
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A stunning collection of new short stories originally commissioned by The New York Times Magazine as the COVID-19 pandemic swept the world, from 29 authors including Margaret Atwood, Tommy Orange, Edwidge Danticat and more, in a project inspired by Boccaccio's "The Decameron." When reality is surreal, only fiction can make sense of it. As the coronavirus pandemic swept the world, The New York Times Magazine asked 29 authors to write new short stories...
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Pub. Date:
[2024]
Language:
English
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Set in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdowns, Fourteen Days is an irresistibly propulsive collaborative novel from the Authors Guild, with an unusual twist: each character in this diverse, eccentric cast of New York neighbors has been secretly written by a different, major literary voice--from Margaret Atwood and John Grisham to Tommy Orange and Celeste Ng. One week into the COVID-19 shutdown, tenants of a Lower East...
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Publisher:
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
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MY HEART IS HUMAN is a near future SF thriller that folds ideas from Ray Kurzweil's "The Singularity is Near" into a story reminiscent of Stephanie Meyer's "The Host" and Wesley Chu's the "Lives of Tao" series, as one person struggles to share his body and mind with an evolving AI. Joel Lodowick was 13-years-old when the government turned off all the tech. Nine years later bionics, self-driving vehicles, automated systems, even the internet are a...
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Publisher:
Harper Audio
Pub. Date:
[2024]
Language:
English
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One week into the COVID-19 shutdown, tenants of a Lower East Side apartment building in Manhattan have begun to gather on the rooftop and tell stories. With each passing night, more and more neighbors gather, bringing chairs and milk crates and overturned pails. Gradually the tenants, some of whom have barely spoken to each other, become real neighbors. In this Decameron-like serial novel, general editor Margaret Atwood, Authors Guild president Douglas...