Articles About Pandemic-Era Diary Writing
Begley, “For the Sake of History, Keep a Cornoavirus Diary,” Medium, March 26, 2020
Chen, “Ai Xiaoming and the Quarantine Counter-Diary,” LA Review of Books, March 12, 2021
Daley, “Note to Self: A Pandemic is a Great Time to Keep at Diary,” The Conversation, Sept. 2020
Geisel, “Journal-Writing in the Time of Corona,” The Rambling, Oct. 23, 2020
Kohli, “How to Keep a Quarantine Diary,” Boston Globe, April 26, 2020
Maitland, “There’s Never Been a Better Moment to Start a Diary,” Vogue UK, July 11, 2020
Miller, “Why You Should Start a Coronavirus Diary,” New York Times, April 13, 2020
Ome, “Dear Diary: This is My Life in Quarantine,” The Atlantic, August 6, 2020
Rittenberg, “The Importance of Pandemic Diaries,” BookRiot, July 7, 2020
Sneider, “The Race to Collect the Pandemic’s History — as It Unfolds,” Wired, Aug. 20, 2020
Waldman, “Dear Diary, The World is Burning,” The New Yorker, April 10, 2020
Wiess, “I’m keeping an Instagram pandemic diary. When should I stop?” Boston Globe, March 16, 2021
Wilkinson, “Plague journals and the need to capture time,” Vox, March 11, 2021
Archives Gathering Pandemic Diaries & Journals
COVID-19 Journal Project, Wisconsin Historical Society
The Diary Files, State Library New South Wales
NYC Covid-19 Oral History, Narrative and Memory Archive, Columbia University
