Literary Responses

Novels and stories, poems and personal essays. Most challenge or lampoon the Official Narrative of Covid, but I have included works by true Covidians when they capture the confused spirit of our age. Click on image for detailed record.

book cover image and hyperlink for: The Vapor, the Hot Hat, and the Witches' Potion: A Fairy Story by Margaret Anna Alice September 2021, independently published
book cover image and hyperlink for: Covid Unmasked: A Survivor's Guide by Tony Aspler April 2021, Mosaic Press
book cover image and hyperlink for: The Corona Monologues: Auditioning Monologues Based on the Covid-19 Pandemic by Darrell Bartell February 2022, Progressive Rising Phoenix Press
book cover image and hyperlink for: Killing Time by Alan Bennett November 2024, Faber and Faber
Book cover image and hyperlink for: Uncomfortability by Roxanna Bennett September 2023, Gordon Hill Press
book cover image for Pharma Wars by Hugh Cameron
book cover image and hyperlink for: Year of the Murder Hornet by Tina Cane May 2022, Veliz Books
book cover image and hyperlink for: I Love You All, Please Leave: Essays on Covid Lockdowns and Psych Lockups by Victoria Carlisle September 2023, independently published
book cover image and hyperlink for: A Needle For a Needle: A Mother's Covid Revenge by Vernon Coleman September 2023, independently published
book cover image and hyperlink for: Life Sucks: Memories and Introspections During the Great Covid Lockdown by P. S. Conway March 2025, Fictional Cafe Press
book cover image for Fighting Talk by Paul Cookson
book cover image and hyperlink for: Bring Out Your Dead: Elegies from the Plague Year by Chad Davidson January 2024, LSU Press
book cover image and hyperlink for: A Sad Collection of Short Stories, Cheap Parables, Amusing Anecdotes, Covid-Inspired Bad Poetry by Sean Dempsey May 2024, independently published
book cover image and hyperlink for: Kissing the Coronavirus by M. J. Edwards October 2020, independently published
book cover image and hyperlink for: Covid Vortex Anxiety Opera Kitty Kaleidoscope Disco by Karen Finley March 2025, City Lights
book cover image and hyperlink for: The Unvaccinated by Jean Grandbois December 2022, independently published
book cover image and hyperlink for: Covid / Corvid by Alyson Hallett and Penelope Shuttle September 2021, Broken Sleep Books
book cover image and hyperlink for: The Colour Yellow and The Number 19: Negative Thoughts That Helped One Man Mostly Retain His Sanity During 2020 by Kevin Higgins November 2020, independently published
book cover image and hyperlink for: Zone 23 by C. J. Hopkins July 2025, Arcade
book cover image and hyperlink for: Pandemonium: Some Verses on the Current Predicament by Armando Iannucci November 2021, Little, Brown
book cover image and hyperlink for: A Book About Myself Called Hell by Jaren Joseph February 2022, Kernpunkt Press
book cover image and hyperlink for: The Confessions of Anthony Fauci by Robert Kennedy III November 2025, MAHA Press
book cover image and hyperlink for: Love in the Time of Contagion: A Diagnosis by Laura Kipnis February 2022, Pantheon Books
book cover image and hyperlink for: Stay Safe: A Novel by Michael Lacoy September 2023, Monteverdi Press
book cover image for Motel Prius by Guy Lane
book cover image and hyperlink for: After the Before Times by Jan Leland June 2023, Austin Macauley
book cover image and hyperlink for: Busting Anti-Vax Myths! Seriously Expert Arguments for the Covid-Deniers in Your Life by  Oisín MacAmadáin August 2022, independently published
book cover image and hyperlink for: Much Ado About Corona: A Dystopian Love Story by John C. A. Manley April 2022, Blazing Pine Cone
book cover image for The Pamela Papers by Nancy McCabe
book cover image and hyperlink for: Yankee Doodle Soup for the Fringy, Tin Foil Hat-Wearing Conspiracy Theorist's Soul edited by Jenna McCarthy June 2024, Bella Luna Press
book cover image and hyperlink: A Friendship in Twilight: Lockdown Conversations on Death and Life by Jack Miles and Mark C. Taylor July 2022, Columbia University Press
book cover image and hyperlink for: Are You There God? It's Me Covid-19 by Travis Ruso Milton November 2021, Liferich
book cover image for What Our Friends Left Behind by Victoria Noe
book cover image and hyperlink for: The Corona Verses by Tim O'Leary April 2024, Rare Bird Books
book cover image and hyperlink for: Abiden by Aviel Oppenheim September 2024, LibertyWorks
book cover image and hyperlink for: Careful-ish: A Ridiculous Romp Through Covid-Living As Seen Through The Eyes Of Ridiculous People by Honey Parker October 2020, Slow Burn Marketing
book cover image and hyperlink for: Edge of Safety: A Future Tale of Arbitrary Lockdowns and the Deeply Caring Citizens Who Love Them by Neal Pollack June 2022, Bombardier Books
book cover image and hyperlink for: Banksia Close by C. L. Rowe December 2023, Liberty Moth
book cover image and hyperlink for: Letters Apart by Ed Schad and Liat Yossifor September 2023, DoppelHouse Press
book cover image and hyperlink for: Paranoic in the Age of Stupid by Alan Forrest Smith January 2022, independently published
book cover image and hyperlink for: I Yelled at a Cucumber: Pandemic Tales from the Edge of Sanity by Carianne Smith May 2025, independently published
book cover image and hyperlink for: Haptic, Covid, Philosophy by Alan Sondheim September 2024, Broken Sleep Books
book cover image and hyperlink for: Diary of a Former Covidiot: Tales of Panic Buying, Surviving and Finding Humor during the Coronavirus Pandemic by Christina Thé  March 2021, Marshall Cavendish
book cover image for Surfing with Sharks by Seve Verdad
book cover image and hyperlink for: The Time We Have: Essays on Pandemic Living by Michele Weldon July 2024, Northwestern University Press
book cover image and hyperlink for: Ali's Well That Ends Well: Tales of Desperation and a Little Inspiration by Ali Wentworth May 2022, Harper