Fourteen Days

<p><b>John Grisham (Contributor) </b><br> John Grisham is the author of forty works of fiction and one of non-fiction. His works are translated into forty-two languages. He lives in Virginia.<br><br><b>Meg Wolitzer (Contributor) </b><br> <b>Meg Wolitzer</b> is the author of several acclaimed novels including <i>The Uncoupling</i> (‘tingles with playfulness and wicked observation’ <i>Independent</i>) <i>The Wife</i> (‘has you howling with recognition’ Allison Pearson) <i>The Position </i>(‘one of the best and most human books I’ve read all year’ Erica Wagner) and <i>The Ten-Year Nap </i>(‘as incisive and pitiless and clear-eyed a chronicler of female-male tandems as Philip Roth or John Updike' <i>Chicago Tribune</i>). Most recently <i>The Interestings</i> was a <i>New York Times</i> bestseller. She lives in New York City.<br><br><b>Sylvia Day (Contributor) </b><br> SYLVIA DAY is the number one <i>Sunday Times</i> and international bestselling author of over twenty award-winning novels sold in forty-one countries. She is a number one bestselling author in twenty-nine countries including five number one <i>Sunday Times</i> bestsellers. There are over twenty-million copies of her books in print. Day is featured on Nielsen's 'Bestseller Hall of Fame' which denotes authors whose titles have reached platinum sales records.<br><br><b>Neil Gaiman (Contributor) </b><br> Date: 2013-08-06<br>Gaiman is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels <i>Neverwhere</i> (1995) <i>Stardust </i>(1999) the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning <i>American Gods </i>(2001) <i>Anansi Boys </i>(2005) and <i>Good Omens </i>(with Terry Pratchett 1990) as well as the short story collections <i>Smoke and Mirrors </i>(1998) and <i>Fragile Things</i> (2006). His screenwriting credits include the original BBC TV series of <i>Neverwhere </i>(1996) Dave McKean’s first feature film <i>Mirrormask</i> (2005) the Doctor Who episode 'The Doctor's Wife' (2011) and of course the forthcoming 'Good Omens' TV series.<br><br>Neil Gaiman is the creator of <i>The Sandman </i>comic book series and the bestselling author of the novels <i>Neverwhere </i>(1995) <i>Stardust </i>(1999) the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning <i>American Gods </i>(2001) <i>Coraline</i> (2002) <i>Anansi Boys </i>(2005) <i>The Ocean at the End of the Lane </i>(2013) <i>Good Omens </i>(with Terry Pratchett 1990) and a retelling of the Norse myths: <i>Norse Mythology </i>(2017). His short story collections include <i>Smoke and Mirrors </i>(1998) and <i>Fragile Things </i>(2006). His screenwriting credits include the original BBC TV series of <i>Neverwhere </i>(1996) Dave McKean’s first feature film <i>Mirrormask </i>(2005) two Doctor Who episodes and <i>Good Omens </i>(2019).<br><br><b>Rachel Kushner (Contributor) </b><br> <b>Rachel Kushner</b> is the author of <i>The Mars Room</i> which was shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker Prize. Her previous novels <i>Telex from Cuba</i> and <i>The Flamethrowers</i> were both <i>New York Times</i> bestsellers and finalists for the National Book Award. Her fiction has appeared in the <i>New Yorker</i> <i>Harper’s</i> and the <i>Paris Review</i>. She lives in Los Angeles.<br><br><b>Margaret Atwood (External Editor) </b><br> <b>Margaret Atwood</b> is the author of more than fifty books of fiction poetry and critical essays. Her novels include <i>Cat's Eye </i><i>The Robber Bride </i><i>Alias Grace</i> <i>The Blind Assassin </i>and the <i>MaddAddam </i>trilogy. Her 1985 classic <i>The Handmaid's Tale</i> was followed in 2019 by a sequel <i>The Testaments</i> which was a global number one bestseller and shared the Booker Prize. In 2020 she published <i>Dearly</i> her first collection of poetry for a decade and in 2022 <i>Burning Questions</i> a collection of essays was a <i>Sunday Times</i> bestseller. <br><br>Atwood has won numerous awards including the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society the Franz Kafka Prize the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. In 2019 she was made a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour for services to literature. She has also worked as a cartoonist illustrator librettist playwright and puppeteer. She lives in Toronto Canada.<br><br><b>Douglas Preston (External Editor) </b><br> Douglas Preston has published 39 books of fiction and nonfiction of which 32 have been <i>New York Times </i>bestsellers some reaching the #1 position. Two of his novels co-written with Lincoln Child were chosen in a National Public Radio poll of readers as being among the 100 greatest thrillers ever written. His recent nonfiction book <i>The Lost City of the Monkey God</i> was named a notable book of the year by the <i>New York Times</i> the <i>Boston Globe</i> and <i>National Geographic</i> magazine. In addition to books Preston writes about archaeology and paleontology for the <i>New Yorker Magazine</i>. He worked as an editor for the American Museum of Natural History in New York and taught nonfiction writing at Princeton University. He is the recipient of numerous writing awards in the U.S. and Europe and he served as president of the Authors Guild from 2019 to 2023.<br><br></p> <p><b>Set in a New York apartment building <i>Fourteen Days</i> is an irresistibly propulsive novel with an unusual twist: each character in this diverse eccentric cast of neighbours has been secretly written by a different major literary voice - from Margaret Atwood and John Grisham to Emma Donoghue and Celeste Ng.</b><br><br>One week into lockdown the tenants of a run-down apartment building in Manhattan have begun to gather on the rooftop each evening and tell stories. With each passing night more and more neighbours gather bringing chairs and milk crates and overturned pails. Gradually the tenants - some of whom have barely spoken to each other before now - become real neighbours. A dazzling heartwarming and ultimately surprising narrative <i>Fourteen Days</i> is an ode to the power of storytelling and human connection.<br><br><br><b>Includes writing from</b>: Charlie Jane Anders Margaret Atwood Jennine Capo Crucet Pat Cummings Joseph Cassara Angie Cruz Sylvia Day Emma Donoghue Dave Eggers Diana Gabaldon Tess Gerritsen John Grisham Maria Hinojosa Mira Jacob Erica Jong CJ Lyons Celeste Ng Tommy Orange Mary Pope Osborne Doug Preston Alice Randall Caroline Randall Ishmael Reed Roxana Robinson Nelly Rosario James Shapiro Hampton Sides R.L. Stine Nafissa Thompson-Spires Monique Truong Scott Turow Luis Alberto Urrea Rachel Vail Weike Wang DeShawn Charles Winslow Meg Wolitzer</p> If you want to feel well read in double-quick time try <i>Fourteen Days</i> which is set in a New York city tenement in the early days of the pandemic. It has a novel twist (pardon the pun) - each character has been secretly written by a different author from Margaret Atwood and John Grisham to Dave Eggers and Celeste Ng This “collaborative novel” unites writers including Celeste Ng John Grisham and Emma Donoghue for a story set in a New York apartment building during — surprise! — Covid-19. Framed as an ode to the people who couldn’t escape the city there’s a twist: it’s deliberately unclear who wrote what While we're really not in a rush to think about the pandemic again we'll make an exception for Margaret Atwood. <i>Fourteen Days </i>is a collaborative novel edited by Atwood and Douglas Preston and includes writing from Celeste NG and John Grisham amongst others. In the novel the inhabitants of a Manhattan apartment block gather on the roof and tell stories as more neighbours join people start to form real bonds These stories introduce a theme of diversity that’s one of the joys of the book. There are ghost stories a war story many tales of betrayal and revenge and a report on Shakespeare’s plague experience by scholar James Shapiro…. A multicultural tribute to the New York lockdown experience….moving and funny Putting a bold new twist on the plague novel this bountiful unpredictable witty and affecting tale-of-tales is made all the more intriguing by the fact that it’s a collaboration by 36 exceptional writers….This enthralling novel of many voices and moods dramatizes the transformation of isolation into community via stories and explores a grand spectrum of human experiences