Writing During a Pandemic

This recording is presented by Princeton Public Library. Authors Ethan Casey and David Howell explore diaries and other personal accounts written over the past year, including their new books.

Publisher and international journalist Ethan Casey and David Howell, humanities professor and author, are among the many who have written personal accounts of the past year. Casey began writing last March when his home city of Seattle was on the pandemic’s terrifying leading edge. The result is “In the Before Time: A Seattle Diary of the Pandemic Year.” Howell turned isolation into productive solitude, biking to local parks and sitting on picnic tables to write what became “The Serenity Experiment: Searching for Personal Peace in a World That Won’t Slow Down.”

The authors will discuss their books and how writing about all we’re living through can be good for the soul.

This event was recorded on March 31, 2021.

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