March 30 – April 3, 2019

• Leslie Jamison on parenting (and being sick) during a pandemic.
• Read from Samuel Pepys’ 1665 plague blog.
• Gerald Howard makes a case for why Don DeLillo deserves the Nobel Prize.
• Emily Raboteau on homeschooling during a pandemic.
• In Kurt Vonnegut’s earliest recorded speech, he implored the government to “let the killing stop.”
• On May Alcott Nieriker, who inspired the character of Amy March.