A Pandemic Archive

The Work of Living: Working People Talk About Their Lives and the Year the World Broke, by Maximillian Alvarez, OR Books (2022)

A hundred years from now, when all the great crises we’re living through have played out, who will tell the story of what happened to us? Will historians reconstruct this period with broad statistics or lofty accounts made from decades later? Or will the voices of the people who bore the brunt of it and survived somehow make it to the listeners of the future?

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