100 Days in Quarantineland

NY Dispatch Day 100: My first day of working from home was March 16, 2020, when New York City went into lockdown. Just the week before I had attended Soundheim’s Company on Broadway, snarkily posting a comment overheard in the sold out theater, “So much for social distancing! #NoFearCovid.” The irony. The last thing we should have now is company.

I had done extensive research on pandemics for a novel I was working on and was prepared for the news. On the disaster-porn section of my bookshelf is ...