The essay “Drunkards! I Molest You!” reflects on Venice in February 2020, mediaeval plagues, Covid-19, the San Michele cemetery, yelling from speed boats, and laughing nuns.
Mark Anthony Jarman is the author of six books of fiction and two travel books, Touch Anywhere to Begin and Ireland’s Eye, a finalist for an American Independent Publishers’ Award. His short-story collection 19 Knives won the ReLit Award and was praised by A.S. Byatt in the Guardian as “brilliant. The writing is extraordinary, the stories are gripping, it is something new.”
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This project is funded in part by the Government of Canada.
Ce projet est financé en partie par le gouvernement du Canada.
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