What to Read in the Face of Disaster
Can any writer offer useful wisdom when ash rains over a metropolis?
Boris Kachka
Boris Kachka is a senior editor at The Atlantic. He is the author, most recently, of Hothouse: The Art of Survival and the Survival of Art at America's Most Celebrated Publishing House, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.
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