NOTE: THE TIME OF THIS EVENT HAS CHANGED TO 6:00 P.M. CST.
We are proud to present Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author Eli Saslow as part of our on-going Must Read TV series of virtual author events.
Eli’s searing new book, Voices from the Pandemic, is a powerful and cathartic portrait of a country grappling with the Covid-19 pandemic—from fear and overwhelm to extraordinary resilience—told through voices of people from all across America. Eli will be in conversation with Mary O’Malley, our free-range bookseller-at-large, and we promise you that you will NOT want to miss this discussion. If you think you’re tired of reading about and hearing about the pandemic, think again. This book sheds new light and new perspectives on everything that we have suffered thorough over these last 18 months.
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The Covid-19 pandemic was a world-shattering event, affecting everyone in the nation. From its first ominous stirrings, renowned journalist Eli Saslow began interviewing a cross-section of Americans, capturing their experiences in real time: An exhausted and anguished EMT risking his life in New York City; a grocery store owner feeding his neighborhood for free in locked-down New Orleans; an overwhelmed coroner in Georgia; a Maryland restaurateur forced to close his family business after forty-six years; an Arizona teacher wrestling with her fears and her obligations to her students; rural citizens adamant that the whole thing is a hoax, and retail workers attacked for asking people to wear masks; patients struggling to breathe and doctors desperately trying to save them.
Through Saslow's masterful, empathetic interviewing, we are given a kaleidoscopic picture of a people dealing with the unimaginable. These deeply personal accounts make for cathartic reading, as we see Americans at their worst, and at their resilient best.
ELI SASLOW is a reporter for The Washington Post, and the author of TEN LETTERS, AMERICAN HUNGER, and RISING OUT OF HATRED, which won the 2019 Dayton Literary Peace Prize. He was awarded The Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting in 2014 and was a Pulitzer Finalist in Feature Writing in 2013, 2016 and 2017. The series on which this book is based won the 2020 George Polk award for Oral History.
