![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the opening essay, you write “It’s the spectacle, I think, that makes a disaster a disaster.” Covid, by contrast, is not so spectacular so much of its devastation is communicated by numbers rather than fire or explosive imagery. Kyle Williams: I’m going to start with what is maybe my most unfair question: It’s difficult to read the disaster essays in your book without thinking about the pandemic. Deeply researched but never dull, each essay practices the fine art of obsession and draws the reader in regardless or because of how horrifying the subject matter proves to be, from nuclear meltdowns to climate change, plague to mass hysteria-each essay is a reckoning. The Unreality of Memory is a book about disasters: what they look like, how we respond to them, and what we even think the word means. Her critical eye is on display throughout the essays in The Unreality of Memory-a book that is as difficult to read in our moment as it is necessary. ![]()
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