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In February 2021, four partner organizations, La Jolla Historical Society San Diego Public Library, San Diego Writers, Ink and Write Out Loud presented the San Diego Decameron Project. Members of our San Diego community were invited to submit previously-unpublished fiction or nonfiction narratives of 1,000 words or less based loosely around the theme of the current pandemic.
The multi-part "Decameron Project" will be available to stream through the end of the year.
The signs of spring are certainly upon us and we still await some symbolism of normalcy in our lives as more of our friends, family, and neighbors are vaccinated against COVID-19. While we are waiting for these restrictions to end, or at least adjust, let me remind you not only that great works of literature have been written during plague years in the past, but that books have also been written about those experiences. Giovanni Boccaccio wrote his most famous work âThe Decameronâ after the epidemic of 1348, available through Overdrive. The book consists of 100 stories, some baw...
Many of us have turned to artistic endeavors throughout the pandemic to fill some free time, writers included. While DC Public Library holds a number of titles about the “hard” side -- science and medicine -- of COVID-19, the books on this list explore the “soft” or social and psychological sides from both fiction and nonfiction perspectives. From a family travel memoir to a collection of meditations on what it means to be alone together, writers examine our lives since COVID-19 invaded, including a remarkable first-hand diary of COVID-19 in Wuhan. Note: All titles are linked to their...
Print Around the year 1350, with Europe in the throes of a bubonic plague epidemic, a book of stories called “The Decameron” captured something of what it was like in Florence, Italy: the devastation, the fear, the resolve, the hope. In 2021, with the world struggling through another pandemic, a new collection of stories aims to chronicle what it felt like in San Diego. Called the San Diego Decameron Project, it includes 100 stories written by county residents as part of a contest organized by the San Diego Public Library, Write Out Loud, La Jolla Historical Society, and San Diego Writers...