“Will you write letters with me, back and forth, for the duration of this virus?” 

When Covid-19 isolated us all in March 2020, C and R — old friends, middle-aged parents, academics, and writers — turned to each other. 

In 100 intensely vulnerable letters, C and R found their way through family estrangement, tense racial dynamics, gender transitions, chronic pain, dramatic career changes, and activist campaigns. Long after the world returned to “normal”, both continued to mask up — yet their paths diverged in often painful ways. Nonetheless, they always returned to the page, enacting what R calls durational performance art. The resulting book is a deeply personal, fiercely political roller coaster that plunges from the lockdowns, into social ambivalence, and finally through the long, politically manufactured “end” of the pandemic.

Aleph Book Company, Winter 2025