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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    ‘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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    By Madeleine Brand • Dec 6, 2023 • 1 min read

    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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    Cursive lessons return to CA: Brain-boosting or unnecessary?
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    4. 40:03New skill or waste of time? Cursive returns to CA classrooms
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      Michael Cunningham

      Author of The Hours and Day: A Novel

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    The full episode

    3 of 4
    Cursive lessons return to CA: Brain-boosting or unnecessary?
    1. 0:00Remembering TV legend Norman Lear
    2. 15:23From House speaker to retiree: Kevin McCarthy’s stunning rise and fall
    3. 24:16‘Pandemic tackled all of us’: Michael Cunningham on ‘Day’You’re reading this
    4. 40:03New skill or waste of time? Cursive returns to CA classrooms
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