Charles McNulty: "I'm sure I'm not the only writer who fantasizes about retreating to a country house with nothing to do but curl up by a fire beside a mountain of Dickens and Dostoevsky. But as the coronavirus pandemic upends our civilization, I'm urging myself to jump off the self-improvement treadmill." " Los Angeles Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24AM on March 18, 2020