These books can help you write your way through coronavirus seclusion

By Courtney Maum
Last month at a skeleton-crew version of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs conference known as AWP, I gave a talk to its Writer to Writer mentorship program about control.
Among the attendees, anxiety prevailed. Would frequent hand-washing be enough to keep this COVID-19 thing at bay? Would literary agents ever open up their inboxes again? What would a writing life in limbo look like or even mean?
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