In the midst of the Coronavirus pandemic, we review Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Katherine Anne Porter's Pale Horse, Pale Rider, a short novel set during the 1918 Flu pandemic. We discuss the novel's surprising anti World War 1 stance, private trauma during a public catastrophe, and what makes Porter a masterclass writer.

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