Editor’s Note: Literary Community in a Time of Global Pandemic

We are at the beginning of a frightening and difficult time in America. Though we glimpse—in the overflowing hospitals of Milan, the shuttered plazas of Madrid—that which may come to pass, it is impossible to know just how hard hit the United States will be by the novel coronavirus. This nation has long prided itself […] Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'

[ Literrary Hub | 2020-03-16 14:00:35 UTC ]
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