Pandemonium Logs: Sioux Falls, South Dakota, 2020–2022: Raritan Skiff Books
Autor Ben Milleren Limba Engleză Paperback – 11 oct 2024 – vârsta ani
In 2015, Ben Miller and the poet Anne Pierson Wiese moved from New York City to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, to explore their midwestern roots and to focus on their writing careers. Working a day job in a hospital, Miller had a front-row seat to the COVID-19 pandemic as it moved from the coasts to the urban Midwest. Pandemonium Logs casts an unflinching eye on the state of the worker in the US health-care system during a global pandemic, giving voice to the doctors, nurses, support staff, patients, and families caught in the complex swirl of daily dilemmas and crucial choices.
In unsparing yet sympathetic prose, Ben Miller creates an intimate portrait of the impact of COVID on the diverse people of South Dakota. Through a wide range of characters—from understandably confused patients to quietly competent nurses—he explores the human complexities of the crisis: a doctor based in Mumbai who treats critically ill patients in the Dakotas via a tenuous hodgepodge of telehealth apparatus, a Hydra of six workplace trainers who together cannot train one employee to do one job, a vice president of corporate hospitality who lives to rip down safety signs as fast as nurses post them, a ninety-year-old hospital volunteer who pushes wheelchairs containing patients half his age.
In Pandemonium Logs, Miller provides precise and moving observations of ordinary people doing extraordinary things.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781978835276
ISBN-10: 1978835272
Pagini: 200
Ilustrații: 2 B-W images
Dimensiuni: 132 x 203 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: Rutgers University Press
Colecția Rutgers University Press
Seria Raritan Skiff Books
ISBN-10: 1978835272
Pagini: 200
Ilustrații: 2 B-W images
Dimensiuni: 132 x 203 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: Rutgers University Press
Colecția Rutgers University Press
Seria Raritan Skiff Books
Notă biografică
BEN MILLER is the author of River Bend Chronicle: The Junkification of a Boyhood Idyll amid the Curious Glory of Urban Iowa. He has published in Raritan, Salmagundi, One Story, The Georgia Review, The Southern Review, New England Review, and other journals. His essays have been reprinted or noted nine times in Best American Essays. His awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Radcliffe Institute, as well as grants from the South Dakota Arts Council and the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America. He has been a finalist for the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction.
Cuprins
Log 1: Call of the Killdeer
Log 2: The Magic of Palm Place
Log 3: Reckoning at the Prairie Center
Log 4: Coda Blue
Acknowledgments
Log 2: The Magic of Palm Place
Log 3: Reckoning at the Prairie Center
Log 4: Coda Blue
Acknowledgments
Recenzii
"Revisit[s] our very recent tragedies with humor, grace and goodwill. . . . Miller scribbled literary snapshots of people, some saints, others knaves. His accounts of compassion, chaos, paranoia, insensitivity, and grace echo gently, like distant birdsong."
"I already knew that Miller has a gift for describing tragedies in stunning and beautiful ways. In Pandemonium Logs we experience what it was like to be in the COVID trenches, remote, on-line trenches, but trenches nevertheless. 'Tis a beautiful thing. Not the virus, this book."
"This is what I suspect Kafka would have sounded like had he been raised on a steady diet of midwestern irony. Yet Ben Miller's Pandemonium Logs is not just a writer's disenchanted account of working in a telehealth intensive care unit in COVID-skeptical South Dakota. In spare, wry prose, Miller explores the full weirdness of his situation—a helper of helpers plunged into the heart of the pandemic yet still removed from it. A profound meditation on the fragility of life, delivered in a voice that is both irresistibly intimate and unfailingly precise."
"In this chronicle of the COVID pandemic's era of e-medicine and its quietly surreal mundanity, Ben Miller depicts the brave, underpaid, overworked lives of his fellow healthcare workers and their desperately sick patients. His precise descriptive eye, coupled with his compassionate restraint, imbues their lives with both dignity and mystery."
"Ben Miller's Pandemonium Logs is as tender as it is heartbreaking as it is humorous. This book returns readers to the COVID-19 pandemic, a time when we all felt hopeless, when the threat of illness and death felt omnipresent. With precise and evocative observations, enter this world of chaos, compassion, and subtle hilarity. In devastatingly beautiful prose, Miller's book is unassuming and alive with purpose and deep meaning. He reminds us to whom we owe safety and love. A small masterpiece. Humanity in motion. No gimmicks. Downright good, informed writing. Ben, thank you for reminding us that Birds are born knowing their songs and where to sing them. Humans must again and again discover their songs, locate the venues for them."
"I already knew that Miller has a gift for describing tragedies in stunning and beautiful ways. In Pandemonium Logs we experience what it was like to be in the COVID trenches, remote, on-line trenches, but trenches nevertheless. 'Tis a beautiful thing. Not the virus, this book."
"This is what I suspect Kafka would have sounded like had he been raised on a steady diet of midwestern irony. Yet Ben Miller's Pandemonium Logs is not just a writer's disenchanted account of working in a telehealth intensive care unit in COVID-skeptical South Dakota. In spare, wry prose, Miller explores the full weirdness of his situation—a helper of helpers plunged into the heart of the pandemic yet still removed from it. A profound meditation on the fragility of life, delivered in a voice that is both irresistibly intimate and unfailingly precise."
"In this chronicle of the COVID pandemic's era of e-medicine and its quietly surreal mundanity, Ben Miller depicts the brave, underpaid, overworked lives of his fellow healthcare workers and their desperately sick patients. His precise descriptive eye, coupled with his compassionate restraint, imbues their lives with both dignity and mystery."
"Ben Miller's Pandemonium Logs is as tender as it is heartbreaking as it is humorous. This book returns readers to the COVID-19 pandemic, a time when we all felt hopeless, when the threat of illness and death felt omnipresent. With precise and evocative observations, enter this world of chaos, compassion, and subtle hilarity. In devastatingly beautiful prose, Miller's book is unassuming and alive with purpose and deep meaning. He reminds us to whom we owe safety and love. A small masterpiece. Humanity in motion. No gimmicks. Downright good, informed writing. Ben, thank you for reminding us that Birds are born knowing their songs and where to sing them. Humans must again and again discover their songs, locate the venues for them."
Descriere
In 2015, Ben Miller moved from New York City to Sioux Falls, South Dakota to focus on his writing. Working a day job in a hospital, he had a front-row seat to the Covid-19 pandemic. His book gives voice to the doctors, nurses, staff, and patients he observed.