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Virtual Memories Show
\nCOVID Check-In: Peter Trachtenberg<\/a><\/p>\n

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Author and professor Peter Trachtenberg<\/a> checks in from the Catskills. We talk about his surprise at how well he’s dealing with This Whole Situation, the essay he’s working on about Katherine Anne Porter’s Pale Horse, Pale Rider<\/a>, the realization that Americans are more afraid of going broke than contracting COVID-19, and how this pandemic echoes and differs from the 1918 flu and the AIDS crisis. We get into the book he’s working on about living and dying in New York’s Westbeth artists’ apartments, the value of art in society, his meditative practice of reading Levi’s Periodic Table<\/a> in Italian, what it was like to preside over graduation-by-video at Pitt, and more. Give it a listen!<\/a> And go read Another Insane Devotion<\/a> and Peter’s other books!<\/p>\n

You can listen to all these COVID Check-In episodes at The COVID-19 Sessions<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n