Megan Milks: What’s it like releasing this book into the world now?Ĭarley Moore: Like everybody, I didn’t think we’d be in this third wave. I interviewed her in late January, as Omicron waned and her cat Pippi did her best to destroy my book. Moore herself contracted COVID a few weeks later. (That urgent-care clinic ended up shutting down temporarily due to understaffing). My test results from that day never came back. Written in part with the support of transcription software, it offers incisive critical commentary on disability and pandemic time in the COVID era. The novel is shaped by Moore’s long history with disability and chronic pain. “I bring solitude, disability, illness, love”. “I’m logging into the autofiction archive,” Orpheus/Carley tells us. When she gets invited to a secret party called Le Monocle in the backyard of a Brooklyn garden apartment, the novel’s rules suddenly, deliciously change-and we find ourselves transported to Paris in 1935. The first half documents the events and mood of pandemic-era New York from May-June 2020, as Moore’s autofictional narrator Orpheus (aka Carley) bikes the city in search of her ex-girlfriend Eurydice. Moore’s third novel (after The Not Wives and The Stalker Chronicles), Panpocalypse was conceived as a partially serialized novel.
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