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: 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 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 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 and hyperlink for: After the Before Times by Jan Leland June 2023, Austin Macauley
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 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 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: 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