It Is Too Soon To Read Fiction about the Pandemic?

In the End of Days, Rowan Keller Smith warns us about how immune we once were to thoughts of extinction.

I pulled out last year’s winter jacket only to find a handful of disposable face masks stuffed into my pocket and realized it wasn’t that long ago that the end of days seemed strikingly plausible (it still does but for various other reasons!)

In many ways, we have never “returned to normal” after the pandemic. Lots of workplaces still offer hybrid sched…