This is the Bookry podcast once again. This is episode 369, according on April 9th,

20. I'm almost sure two of those three dates is correct.

66% chance that I've got those right.

All told, we are entering week n of this, whatever we're going to call this. I was thinking about this too as we

more and more realize the scale scope historical significance of the moment we're in.

What are we going to call it?

Kind of like we never really agreed on what to call the ats as a number, right?

You know, like it was, you know, the teens I guess we've had now the 20s is a little bit easier.

Because now we've referred to the 1918 pandemic is how we refer to that.

Well, this just be the 2020 pandemic,

or are we going to call it COVID-19 or novel coronavirus?

This is what you think about when you've been in your house for

four weeks and you're reading news all the time. It'd be interesting to know what this, but

wherever it is in the future people listening to this show, I'm sorry we haven't yet named it for the history books, but we're working on it.

The great distancing. I feel, yeah, I feel like Rebecca, we've entered a new phase of this in the book world.

Maybe before I even say what that is, do you agree with me?

And then tell me what I'm feeling about what this.

I tell you what you're feeling.

I think that we have it feels I'm well I'm feeling a couple like I'm seeing a couple

different things happen maybe you're seeing the same thing we are We're wrapping up week four of social distancing here. I think this is actually the end of my fourth week.

Folks in New York, we're maybe doing it a little bit longer where publishing is based.

I think you guys might have been a little bit ahead of us too on the West Coast.

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