In response: to every piece of grim news my friend writes me to say “I have a bad feeling about this,” and though I worry about him and worry about the news, I am much more worried abou…| LibrarianShipwreck
Apologies, the last thing I want is to romanticize the past, catastrophes and barbarism, cruelty and plagues, none of these things are new, yes, I understand, that we have always lived amidst crise…| LibrarianShipwreck
I sit here with lectures to write, and papers to grade, and emails to send, the world around me is ripping apart, and though I know I should be trying desperately trying to mend those rips, I find …| LibrarianShipwreck
* The Plague Poems are an attempt to document the COVID-19 pandemic. The first Plague Poems were posted on Twitter by the account @PlaguePoems on March 16, 2020. Since then, new poems have been pos…| LibrarianShipwreck
“I do not believe that things will turn out well, but the idea that they might is of decisive importance.” – Max Horkheimer librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com @libshipwreck| LibrarianShipwreck
It is said that during the plague the bard wrote King Lear. Perhaps, but how many did not live to see it performed? * When they said “go out” I wanted to stay in. And when they said “stay in” I wan…| LibrarianShipwreck
