The Decameron Project: 29 New Stories from the Pandemic

by The New York Times, Edwidge Danticat (Read by), Alexandra Allwine (Read by), Kevin R. Free (Read by), Uzodinma Iweala (Read by)

Overview

A stunning collection of new short stories originally commissioned by the New York Times Magazine as the COVID-19 pandemic swept the world, from twenty-nine major authors, including Margaret Atwood, Tommy Orange, Edwidge Danticat and more, in a project inspired by Boccaccio’s “The Decameron.”

When reality is surreal, only fiction can make sense of it.

As the coronavirus pandemic swept the world, the New York Times Magazine asked twenty-nine authors to write new short stories inspired by the moment—and by Giovanni Boccaccio’s “The Decameron,” which was written as a plague ravaged Florence in the fourteenth century.

Table of Contents:

“Preface” by Caitlin Roper

“Introduction” by Rivka Galchen

“Recognition” by Victor LaValle

“A Blue Sky Like This” by Mona Awad

“The Walk” by Kamila Shamsie

“Tales from the LA River” by Colm Tóibín

“Clinical Notes” by Liz Moore

“The Team” by Tommy Orange

“The Rock” by Leila Slimani

“Impatient Griselda” by Margaret Atwood

“Under the Magnolia” by Yiyun Li

“Outside” by Etgar Keret

“Keepsakes” by Andrew O’Hagan

“The Girl with the Big Red Suitcase” by Rachel Kushner

“The Morningside” by Téa Obreht

“Screen Time” by Alejandro Zambra

“How We Used to Play” by Dinaw Mengestu

“Line 19 Woodstock/Glisan” by Karen Russell

“If Wishes Was Horses” by David Mitchell

“Systems” by Charles Yu

“The Perfect Travel Buddy” by Paolo Giordano

“An Obliging Robber” by Mia Cuoto

“Sleep” by Uzodinma Iweala

“Prudent Girls” by Rivers Solomon

“That Time at My Brother’s Wedding” by Laila Lalami

“A Time of Death, The Death of Time” by Julián Fuks

“The Cellar” by Dina Nayeli

“Origin Story” by Matthew Baker

“To the Wall” by Esi Edugyan

“Barcelona: Open City” by John Wray

“One Thing” by Edwidge Danticat

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781797120874
Publisher:	Simon & Schuster Audio
Publication date:	11/10/2020
Product dimensions:	5.70(w) x 5.60(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

The New York Times is a daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed internationally. Founded in 1851, the newspaper has won ninety-five Pulitzer Prizes, more than any other newspaper.