fiction/non/fiction S3 Ep. 13: Literature in the Face of COVID-19: Rigoberto González and Deb Olin Unferth on Writing and Teaching in a Time of Crisis
In this episode, poet Rigoberto González and novelist Deb Olin Unferth discuss how literary life has altered under COVID-19. González, director of the MFA program at Rutgers University-Newark, talks to Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell about the struggles universities face in the transition to online classes, and also reads from his latest collection, The Book of Ruin; Unferth speaks about her new novel, Barn 8, its disrupted book tour, and what we can learn from animals and nature as we navigate a global pandemic.
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Selected readings for the episode:
- The Book of Ruin
- from "Apocalipsixtlán" [5. Signs of the End of the World] by Rigoberto González - Poems
- Butterfly Boy
- Barn 8: A Novel
- Deb Olin Unferth Didn’t Expect to Be Writing From the Point of View of a Chicken (LitHub)
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