‘How We Live Now: Scenes from the Pandemic’ By Bill Hayes c.2020 Bloomsbury Publishing $20/144 pages One day in March, I went to the movies with a friend.
I don’t remember what we saw. It was a lovely afternoon but it didn’t seem that meaningful. The next day, the Washington, D.C.
area went into pandemic mode. Since then, my outing with my buddy seems momentous. Everyone, I bet, has a memory from the Before Times etched in their DNA.
As I write, a Washington Post news alert comes on my screen. The coronavirus has killed at least 1 million people worldwide, it says, “there is no end in sight.” Yet, despite being sucker-punched by the pandemic, we keep going. “How We Live Now,” released on Aug.