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Pandemonium Logs: Sioux Falls, South Dakota, 20202022 [Kietas viršelis]

  • Formatas: Hardback, 200 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 203x132x18 mm, weight: 286 g, 2 B-W images
  • Serija: Raritan Skiff Books
  • Išleidimo metai: 11-Oct-2024
  • Leidėjas: Rutgers University Press
  • ISBN-10: 1978835280
  • ISBN-13: 9781978835283
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  • Formatas: Hardback, 200 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 203x132x18 mm, weight: 286 g, 2 B-W images
  • Serija: Raritan Skiff Books
  • Išleidimo metai: 11-Oct-2024
  • Leidėjas: Rutgers University Press
  • ISBN-10: 1978835280
  • ISBN-13: 9781978835283
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Raktažodžiai:
"In 2015, Ben Miller and his wife, 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 healthcare 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 hodge-podge of tele-health 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"--

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.



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.

Recenzijos

"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." (Dayton Daily News) "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." (Book Nook) "Nearly every entry rings with universality. . . . Maybe because the text is so honest, so forthcoming, it becomes a bit of a salve for the wounds we've assumed are gone because weve ignored them as we've 'returned to normal.' Pandemonium Logs is a frank and gentle reminder that we have all been changed by COVID-19 that allows and encourages readers to care for ourselves, however we are today." (Little Village Magazine) "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."  - Christoph Irmscher (author of The Poetics of Natural History) "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." - Tom Sleigh (author of The King's Touch)

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

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.