Looking Back at an Unimaginable Year - a podcast by WNYC Studios and The New Yorker

It’s a cliché now, but by no means an overstatement, that the past twelve months have been unimaginable. This week, we’ll hear four short reflections on the events of 2020.Dhruv Khullardescribes the early days of the pandemic, when he was taking care of patients in aCOVID-19 ward.Anna Wienervisits California’s Big Basin Redwoods State Park, which burned during the catastrophic West Coast fire season that destroyed acreage close to the area of Massachusetts.Simon Parkinwaxes nostalgic—already!—for Animal Crossing: New Horizons, a video game that occupied untold hours of families at home together. AndKevin Young,The New Yorker’s poetry editor, picks two poems that stand as monuments to what we have lived through: “George Floyd,” by Terrance Hayes, and “The End of Poetry,” by Ada Limón, both of which were read by the authors.

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