Michael Cunningham

Author of The Hours and Day: A Novel

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Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Cunningham is out with his first novel in nearly a decade. It’s set during COVID, but the word “pandemic” doesn’t appear once.

‘Pandemic tackled all of us’: Michael Cunningham on ‘Day’

Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Cunningham is out with his first novel in nearly a decade. It’s set during COVID, but the word “pandemic” doesn’t appear once.

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