Askold Melnyczuk 3/26/20 Askold Melnyczuk 3/26/20

Introduction to Volume 7

There were other things on these writers’ minds before the virus went viral.

Victoria Amelina 3/26/20 Victoria Amelina 3/26/20

Nothing Bad Has Ever Happened

The stories of the dead and the monuments commemorating them aren’t meant to end a conversation, but rather to launch one.

Thomas Sayers Ellis 3/26/20 Thomas Sayers Ellis 3/26/20

Every time you pick up a camera, you are facing another camera.

Judith Hertog 3/26/20 Judith Hertog 3/26/20

Now that I am about to become an American, I wonder if I’m ready for such a commitment.

Dan Hunter 3/26/20 Dan Hunter 3/26/20

Using algorithmic calculations to predict likely words is not writing.

Megan Marshall 3/26/20 Megan Marshall 3/26/20

I walk to the Mt. Auburn cemetery often to visit our plot, finding new and old friends among the dead.

Ruth Mukwana 3/26/20 Ruth Mukwana 3/26/20

I’d like to tell my 8 year old daughter that for some children, schools are their only protection.

John Wronoski 3/26/20 John Wronoski 3/26/20

We are perfectly free to think as long as we keep our thoughts to ourselves . . . and make sure they cannot escape.