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Virtual Memories Show
\nCOVID Check-In: Audrey Niffenegger<\/a><\/p>\n

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Author & artist Audrey Niffenegger<\/a> checks in from Chicago. We talk about her decision to add a pair of 2-month-old kittens to her pandemic household, the progress she’s making on the sequel to The Time Traveler’s Wife<\/a>, how she fortuitously incorporated 9\/11 into that book and has found a place for the pandemic in this one, and why she continues to wear lipstick every day. We also get into writers’ tendency to keep fiddling with their books (especially and expensively in the case of Joyce with Ulysses<\/em>), the bookstores she wants to visit after This Whole Situation, the question of positing a better world in fiction, Chicago’s inequality and how it’s exacerbating the health crisis, the nonprofit Artists Book House<\/a> she helped launch, and why she’s enjoying the silence even as her house succumbs to entropy. Give it a listen!<\/a><\/p>\n

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