How We Live Now: Scenes from the Pandemic

One of the better collections of “this misery we're all living through”. Probably like, 10% poetry, 75% writing, 15% photography. I'd say it should be something they make high schoolers read in ten years, but I'm betting parents will complain because the author is gay and one of the first chapters is him meeting and bringing a guy home, so it's something they need to have college kids read in ten years.

It's amazing how far away the quiet of march-april-may lockdown feels from sept/oct return to school. Hayes makes some links between the HIV impact and Covid19. The photographs are powerful addition. Harder to show how different the noise was - with so few cars on the road and how you could just walk in the middle.