Lit Hub Daily: April 2, 2020

• THESE TIMES: An improbably true parable for the pandemic age: Paul Auster on the wolves of Stanislav · What does your go-to quarantine read say about you? · Here’s how you can help out during the coronavirus pandemic.  ON THE VBC: Katy Simpson Smith talks to Maris Kreizman about the lessons of history · Elizabeth Moen plays a set on Mission Creek Underground · Episode 2 of The Antibody Reading Series.  | Life in a Pandemic
• Finding, hiding, hoarding: Nick Flynn on making collages from found ephemera. | Lit Hub Art
• Phil Christman on false frontiers and the irresistible dream of a prepper’s life. | Lit Hub Politics
•  “This is a country, I will learn, that is spectacular at doing nothing.” Jessica Anthony on the writing conference that ended in a Russian police station. | Lit Hub
• “Oh Wonder.” A poem from Traci Brimhall’s new collection, Come the Slumberless to the Land of Nod. | Lit Hub
• Women in war: on great correspondents past and present, from WWI to today’s citizen journalists. | Lit Hub History
• Dwight Garner on Woody Allen’s mouth-breathing memoir, Francine Prose on Kevin Barry’s Beckettian crime tale, and more of the Reviews You Need to Read This Week. | Book Marks
• “He was talking about resistance, and about how people can come together in a situation to resist.” On teaching Camus’ The Plague (and other literary classics) during a pandemic. | NPR
• “Was Allen’s manuscript edited, and copyedited, and read by corporate lawyers?” An investigation into Woody Allen’s (secrecy-shrouded) memoir. | The New Republic
• What is it like to be a novelist with “no mind’s eye”? | The Guardian
• These stories about brave, adventurous kids might strike a chord with children who are bored at home. | New Statesman
• Feeling uncertain and overwhelmed? One thing we can all do: keep supporting independent bookstores. | Chicago Tribune
• A comedic imagining of Shakespeare’s own “quarantine journal.” | The New Yorker
• A Wuhan-based writer, Wang Fang, calls the Chinese government out. | Wall Street Journal

Also on Lit Hub: Foxed, fuddled, swallowed a hare, and other words for “drunk” • On surveillance capitalism and the internet of things • Read a story by Christine Schutt from the current issue of NOON.