(First football analogy I have ever used.) I’m sure we are all swapping virus stories, but mine began March 3. It sort of felt like being 10 feet from the finish line of a five-year-long marathon and then getting tackled by a linebacker who appears out of nowhere.
It was a strange and peculiar thing to watch the book tour fall away after spending years writing and editing the novel. Jessica Anthony : The virus is a mega-dasher, unlike any we have seen before. Alas, the coronavirus came along and dashed our plans. I’ve been so excited for such a long time now to speak to you in person and get to know the mind behind your new novel, Enter the Aardvark. Luckily for readers, not even a pandemic could stop their conversation.įerris has said that Enter the Aardvark “estranges all over again our deplorable political moment, and thereby helps make it bearable.” Now, as the state of the world gets more deplorable every day, Anthony and Ferris aim to make it a little more bearable with this discussion of the exit of reason, Venetian dolphins, horses who eat cars, and how to resist the temptation to opt out of the world. It was an ideal pairing: Both Ferris and Anthony take aim at the absurdities of modern life in their work, walking the line between satire and soul and managing to be wickedly funny and greathearted at once. She was particularly looking forward to a night at Brooklyn’s Greenlight Bookstore, where she would have been joined in conversation by Joshua Ferris, a novelist she has long admired. In the months leading up to publication, the novel saw an outpouring of love from indie booksellers, and Anthony had a tour planned with events in San Francisco, Washington, D.C., Houston, and Denver, among other cities. Jessica Anthony’s surreal and outrageous Enter the Aardvark published on March 24 into a surreal and outrageous world.
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