It's Lit! S2E3 — How Fictional Pandemics Reflect the Real Thing

It's Lit!•Season 2•Episode 3

How Fictional Pandemics Reflect the Real Thing

Apr 29, 20206 min

Although we are currently living through a pandemic that has disrupted our lives and will shape the course of humanity, pandemics have been around since the dawn of civilization, as have stories about fictional pandemics. So now seems like as good a time as any

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Lindsay Ellis

Lindsay Ellis

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Episode Summary

"How Fictional Pandemics Reflect the Real Thing" is episode 3 of It's Lit! season 2. It aired on April 29, 2020.

Next: E4 · Why We Still Love Little Women, 150 Years Later Best of Season 2