Where was the last place you were Before Quarantine? My last large public gathering before we all entered social isolation was a reading for author Sarah Pinsker’s book A Song for a New Day, which just that week won the prestigious Nebula Award for Best Novel! All too presciently, takes place in a world gone indoors and isolated, warped by a global pandemic and other catastrophes. For the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities’ “Fridays with the Fellows” series, I interviewed Sarah about her novel, artistic practice, who is most harmed and who benefits in a crisis, the precarious life of musicians, how to build communities in the future, and more. It was a realistic conversation about a speculative world that’s all too familiar, and dark times that nonetheless leave a window cracked for hope.
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