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"content": "\u003cp>Professor Alice Kaplan has been scrambling to revise her lectures for the French literature class she teaches at Yale University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the syllabus, coincidentally, for her online class is \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/books/titles/337135825/the-plague\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>The Plague\u003c/em>,\u003c/a> Albert Camus’ 1947 novel about a plague epidemic that ravages a quarantined city in Algeria.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never imagined I would be teaching this novel in the midst of an epidemic,” Kaplan says. “I never imagined I’d need to give a trigger warning for teaching Camus’ \u003cem>The Plague\u003c/em>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaplan has students taking her class virtually from Hong Kong and from Wuhan, China, the city that was the early center of the global COVID-19 pandemic. “They’re really feeling this in a way that no other readers have ever felt this novel before,” Kaplan says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She is one of many readers who are revisiting and rethinking literature about mass disease in the context of the coronavirus pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sales of \u003cem>The Plague\u003c/em> have \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/mar/05/publishers-report-sales-boom-in-novels-about-fictional-epidemics-camus-the-plague-dean-koontz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">skyrocketed\u003c/a> in Europe as people search for \u003ca href=\"https://www.lefigaro.fr/vox/culture/pourquoi-nous-relisons-la-peste-de-camus-20200317\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">meaning\u003c/a> in the midst of the outbreak. Coincidentally, Kaplan is writing the preface for a new translation of the novel. She spent December walking the streets of Oran, the Algerian city beset by plague in the book, and she’s just returned from France, where, she says, you can’t pick up \u003ca href=\"https://www.liberation.fr/debats/2020/02/28/l-epidemie-est-politique_1780041\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a newspaper\u003c/a> without seeing a reference to the novel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are saying in the French press, what do you absolutely need to read in this time? You need to read \u003cem>The Plague\u003c/em>,” Kaplan says. “Almost as though this novel were a vaccine—not just a novel that can help us think about what we’re experiencing, but something that can help heal us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Camus used the plague as an \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/books/2001/nov/17/albertcamus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">allegory for war\u003c/a>: a reflection on the Nazi occupation of France and the stubborn acts of resistance against it. His character Dr. Rieux explains his tenacious persistence in fighting the plague this way: “There’s no question of heroism in all this. It’s a matter of common decency. … I don’t know what it means for other people. But in my case, I know that it consists in doing my job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That “common decency” embodied in Dr. Rieux’s struggle against the plague has special resonance now. “We think about this when we see our health care workers today,” Kaplan says. “The love and the solidarity and the dedication through death and loss—that was very meaningful to Camus,” she says. “He was talking about resistance, and about how people can come together in a situation to resist.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaplan sees echoes, too, in today’s global uncertainty about just how long the pandemic will last, and how long cities will be locked down. “After the Nazis invaded France, no one knew how long it would last,” she says. “Some people thought they needed to adapt to a whole new world where France would always be part of a German Nazi empire. And then other people thought it would be over in a couple of weeks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Camus’ novel, the plague is more than a diabolical external force imposing its will. Camus writes, “Each of us has the plague within him; no one, no one on earth is free from it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As professor Kaplan sees it, “[Camus is] talking about our shadow. I think he’s talking about our capacity to do harm. He says at some point, ‘There’s more to admire in man than to despise.’ But, you know, it’s a contest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The final paragraph of the novel warns that the plague bacillus is always lurking, biding its time, waiting for the day, Camus writes, “when, for the bane and the enlightening of men, it would rouse up its rats again and send them forth to die in a happy city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a message of vigilance,” Kaplan concludes. “It’s a message against complacency.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bubonic plague is also the affliction at the center of the novel \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/books/titles/137957691/year-of-wonders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Year of Wonders\u003c/em>\u003c/a> by \u003ca href=\"http://geraldinebrooks.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Geraldine Brooks\u003c/a>. Set in 1665, it draws on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-35064071\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">true story\u003c/a> of the tiny English village of Eyam (pronounced Eem). Brooks stumbled on the history during a ramble through the English countryside, when she saw a sign pointing to “\u003ca href=\"https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/coronavirus-latest-eyam-bubonic-plague-village-lessons-parallels-a9414306.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Plague Village\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And that just intrigued me,” Brooks says. “It’s one of our most primal fears as human beings, the idea of this silent stalking killer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her novel, Brooks describes the extraordinary action taken by the villagers of Eyam: They decided to voluntarily quarantine their town, keeping the plague inside. By some estimates, two-thirds of the villagers perished. 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Will I be the person pushing my neighbor away to grab the last roll of toilet paper, on a trivial level? 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This is how the sickness travels best: through all the same channels as do fondness and friendship and love.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In parallel with today’s pandemic, the characters in Walker’s novel confront a shortage of face masks. There is a panicked run on supermarkets. Waves through a window to loved ones under quarantine. Talk of it all being a hoax. And, just as now, the impossibility of knowing what’s to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s something that I’m interested in, in general, as a writer,” Walker says. “What it’s like for human beings to live with a kind of radical uncertainty. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Professor Alice Kaplan has been scrambling to revise her lectures for the French literature class she teaches at Yale University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the syllabus, coincidentally, for her online class is \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/books/titles/337135825/the-plague\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>The Plague\u003c/em>,\u003c/a> Albert Camus’ 1947 novel about a plague epidemic that ravages a quarantined city in Algeria.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never imagined I would be teaching this novel in the midst of an epidemic,” Kaplan says. “I never imagined I’d need to give a trigger warning for teaching Camus’ \u003cem>The Plague\u003c/em>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaplan has students taking her class virtually from Hong Kong and from Wuhan, China, the city that was the early center of the global COVID-19 pandemic. “They’re really feeling this in a way that no other readers have ever felt this novel before,” Kaplan says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She is one of many readers who are revisiting and rethinking literature about mass disease in the context of the coronavirus pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sales of \u003cem>The Plague\u003c/em> have \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/mar/05/publishers-report-sales-boom-in-novels-about-fictional-epidemics-camus-the-plague-dean-koontz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">skyrocketed\u003c/a> in Europe as people search for \u003ca href=\"https://www.lefigaro.fr/vox/culture/pourquoi-nous-relisons-la-peste-de-camus-20200317\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">meaning\u003c/a> in the midst of the outbreak. Coincidentally, Kaplan is writing the preface for a new translation of the novel. She spent December walking the streets of Oran, the Algerian city beset by plague in the book, and she’s just returned from France, where, she says, you can’t pick up \u003ca href=\"https://www.liberation.fr/debats/2020/02/28/l-epidemie-est-politique_1780041\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a newspaper\u003c/a> without seeing a reference to the novel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are saying in the French press, what do you absolutely need to read in this time? You need to read \u003cem>The Plague\u003c/em>,” Kaplan says. “Almost as though this novel were a vaccine—not just a novel that can help us think about what we’re experiencing, but something that can help heal us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Camus used the plague as an \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/books/2001/nov/17/albertcamus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">allegory for war\u003c/a>: a reflection on the Nazi occupation of France and the stubborn acts of resistance against it. His character Dr. Rieux explains his tenacious persistence in fighting the plague this way: “There’s no question of heroism in all this. It’s a matter of common decency. … I don’t know what it means for other people. But in my case, I know that it consists in doing my job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That “common decency” embodied in Dr. Rieux’s struggle against the plague has special resonance now. “We think about this when we see our health care workers today,” Kaplan says. “The love and the solidarity and the dedication through death and loss—that was very meaningful to Camus,” she says. “He was talking about resistance, and about how people can come together in a situation to resist.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaplan sees echoes, too, in today’s global uncertainty about just how long the pandemic will last, and how long cities will be locked down. “After the Nazis invaded France, no one knew how long it would last,” she says. “Some people thought they needed to adapt to a whole new world where France would always be part of a German Nazi empire. And then other people thought it would be over in a couple of weeks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Camus’ novel, the plague is more than a diabolical external force imposing its will. Camus writes, “Each of us has the plague within him; no one, no one on earth is free from it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As professor Kaplan sees it, “[Camus is] talking about our shadow. I think he’s talking about our capacity to do harm. He says at some point, ‘There’s more to admire in man than to despise.’ But, you know, it’s a contest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The final paragraph of the novel warns that the plague bacillus is always lurking, biding its time, waiting for the day, Camus writes, “when, for the bane and the enlightening of men, it would rouse up its rats again and send them forth to die in a happy city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a message of vigilance,” Kaplan concludes. “It’s a message against complacency.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bubonic plague is also the affliction at the center of the novel \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/books/titles/137957691/year-of-wonders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Year of Wonders\u003c/em>\u003c/a> by \u003ca href=\"http://geraldinebrooks.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Geraldine Brooks\u003c/a>. Set in 1665, it draws on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-35064071\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">true story\u003c/a> of the tiny English village of Eyam (pronounced Eem). Brooks stumbled on the history during a ramble through the English countryside, when she saw a sign pointing to “\u003ca href=\"https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/coronavirus-latest-eyam-bubonic-plague-village-lessons-parallels-a9414306.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Plague Village\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And that just intrigued me,” Brooks says. “It’s one of our most primal fears as human beings, the idea of this silent stalking killer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her novel, Brooks describes the extraordinary action taken by the villagers of Eyam: They decided to voluntarily quarantine their town, keeping the plague inside. By some estimates, two-thirds of the villagers perished. 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Will I be the person pushing my neighbor away to grab the last roll of toilet paper, on a trivial level? 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"content": "\u003cp>Firstly, let me say this column started out quite differently. You see, I began writing it more than a week ago, and since then life has certainly changed in my house, as I am sure it has in yours. Frankly, things have changed so much, I wasn’t sure I would even get this column written, what with spring break and now school closures (I’m writing it in 10-minute increments, as it is). While my kids’ teachers work feverishly to prepare lessons to send home, I’ve been working on my own home-schooling plan—which, as a former teacher I take very seriously, and as you already-homeschool-parents know, is a heck of a lot of work (especially if you are as regimented and schedule-bound as I am).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But I had a revelation as I was working out the science experiments, fractions worksheets, diagramming worksheets (yes, diagramming. No one will ever stop me from loving it). I was still going to write a column about the same books, but for different reasons. You see, Brad Meltzer and Christopher Eliopoulos have two new books, but I’m not writing about them because they are new.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m writing about them because they are saving the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every morning, after our nature walk, and math (let’s get that out of the way early) my kids have structured reading/history time, after which they have to give an oral report. Since they’re at different reading levels, it’s quite a challenge to find books that will engage them all and not require me to fuss at them, “one at a time, please, ONE AT A TIME!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the \u003cem>Ordinary People Change the World\u003c/em> series fits the bill to a T.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you haven’t seen the Ordinary People books—\u003cem>I am Jane Goodall, I am Jackie Robinson, I am Jim Henson\u003c/em>, et. al., you are really missing out. When I was a kid, I devoured the Value Tales, and the Childhood of Famous Americans books; I mean, I can’t even count how many books I read about Helen Keller and Annie Oakley, not to mention Susan B. Anthony and Clara Barton—hey, would you look at that? All women, who knew? I had considered starting my kids on those, but looking back over them, I was worried they might not be particularly accurate, much less entertaining for kids reared on graphic novels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Meltzer and Eliopoulos had my back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I knew they wanted kids to admire real people, not reality show or video game stars, or superheroes, people of character, not just fame. They wanted kids to know ordinary people of extraordinary character can change the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As an ordinary person, that mission speaks to me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13877901\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13877901\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/I-Am-books-800x400.jpg\" alt=\"Moments from the 'I Am Amelia Earhart' and 'I Am Jim Henson' books.\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/I-Am-books-800x400.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/I-Am-books-160x80.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/I-Am-books-768x384.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/I-Am-books-1020x510.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/I-Am-books.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Moments from the ‘I Am Amelia Earhart’ and ‘I Am Jim Henson’ books.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When I was able to speak to Meltzer, he explained that he wanted a surefire winner for his first subject, a hero his kids couldn’t help but get excited about, someone guaranteed to be a real inspiration from the word “go.” He thought of his adventurous daughter, and settled upon Amelia Earhart. I mean, why not? How could the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean be anything but a hit, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t quite that simple.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evidently, for modern kids, a woman flying across the ocean was not enough to elicit more than “oh, that’s cool.” So Meltzer dug deeper, determined to find the hook. It turns out that what excited his daughter about Amelia Earhart wasn’t the airplane she flew over the ocean as an adult, but rather the roller coaster she built in her backyard as a child (and the crash that followed).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several decisions came from that Eureka! moment. First, cartoonist Christopher Eliopoulous (\u003cem>Misery Loves Sherman\u003c/em>), with his extraordinary ability to draw children, would be a co-creator of the series, and second, they would research every subject extensively so as not to miss what might be an incredibly interesting detail. (When I say extensively, I mean EXTENSIVELY—Meltzer was able to gain access to Walt Disney’s entire archive when he was working on \u003cem>I am Walt Disney\u003c/em>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another very important decision for me, worried about the accuracy of those books I read as a child, was that if one of Meltzer and Eliopoulos’ heroes were imperfect (and who isn’t), they wouldn’t hide it. Meltzer says they wanted every kid to know that imperfect—not just ordinary, but imperfect—people can do extraordinary things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I am glad I knew about the Ordinary People series before we entered this crisis. My kids have loved the books for a long time, and when my son’s teacher asked me to come in and read a book about an important African American figure during Black History month, I knew I would read \u003cem>I am Harriet Tubman\u003c/em>. The fourth grade loved it. 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