How You Lose Culture

Stephen King’s Holly is the second COVID novel I know of by a mega bestselling author. The first was Prom Mom by Laura Lippman. Both are very good and will have an enormous readership.

This means that our story of COVID isn’t getting told. What’s preserved for posterity is the other side’s version.

King and Lippman are gifted. COVID is not the story in their novels. It’s a backdrop for excellent plots about something completely different. We have nobody to do this for us. Nobody to get our story out in this talented way. Nobody to sneak it into people’s beach reads or Friday night reading binges.

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