Mickey's guests for the hour are Susan Zakin and Steve Erickson. Zakin created the online journal

www.JournalOfThePlagueYears.ink as a place for new literature and new kinds of literature,

especially work examining life in the pandemic. Novelist Steve Erickson is a contributing editor to the site. 

 

Susan Zakin is an environmental journalist, and the founder of Journal of the Plague Years.

Her previous works include "Coyotes and Town Dogs."

Steve Erickson is a prolific novelist, and teaches at the University of California's Riverside campus.

His latest work, "American Stutter," is published at Journal of the Plague Years.