TY - BOOK AU - LaValle,Victor AU - Awad,Mona AU - Shamsie,Kamila AU - Tóibín,Colm AU - Moore,Liz AU - Orange,Tommy AU - Slimani,Leïla AU - Atwood,Margaret AU - Li,Yiyun AU - Keret,Etgar AU - O'Hagan,Andrew AU - Kushner,Rachel AU - Obreht,Téa AU - Zambra,Alejandro AU - Mengestu,Dinaw AU - Russell,Karen AU - Mitchell,David AU - Yu,Charles AU - Giordano,Paolo AU - Couto,Mia AU - Iweala,Uzodinma AU - Nayeri,Dina AU - Lalami,Laila AU - Fuks,Julián AU - Solomon,Rivers AU - Baker,Matthew AU - Edugyan,Esi AU - Wray,John AU - Danticat,Edwidge TI - The Decameron project: 29 new stories from the pandemic T2 - Thorndike Press large print core SN - 9781432886769 PY - 2021/// CY - Waterville, Maine PB - Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company KW - COVID-19 (Disease) KW - Fiction KW - Short stories, American KW - Large type books KW - Short stories KW - lcgft N1 - Preface; Caitlin Roper --; Introduction; Rivka Galchen --; Recognition; Victor LaValle --; A blue sky like this; Mona Awad --; The walk; Kamila Shamsie --; Tales from the LA. River; Colm Tóibín --; Clinical notes; Liz Moore --; The team; Tommy Orange --; The rock; Leïla Slimani --; Impatient Griselda; Margaret Atwood --; Under the magnolia; Yiyun Li --; Outside; Etgar Keret --; Keepsakes; Andrew O'Hagan --; The girl with the big red suitcase; Rachel Kushner --; The morningside; Téa Obreht --; Screen time; Alejandro Zambra --; How we used to play; Dinaw Mengestu --; Line 19 Woodstock/Glisan; Karen Russell --; If wishes was horses; David Mitchell --; Systems; Charles Yu --; The perfect travel buddy; Paolo Giordano --; An obliging robber; Mia Couto --; Sleep; Uzodinma Iweala --; The cellar; Dina Nayeri --; That time at my brother's wedding; Laila Lalami --; The time of death, the death of time; Julián Fuks --; Prudent girls; Rivers Solomon --; Origin story; Matthew Baker --; To the wall; Esi Edugyan --; Barcelona: open city; John Wray --; One thing; Edwidge Danticat N2 - Presents a collection of short stories originally commissioned by "The New York Times Magazine" as the COVID-19 pandemic swept the world, from twenty-nine authors including Margaret Atwood, Tommy Orange, Edwidge Danticat, and more, in a project inspired by Boccaccio's "The Decameron." ER -