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Journal of the Plague Years

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Literary, journalistic, irreverent yet oddly serious, Journal of the Plague Years gets the story behind the story.

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About Susan Zakin

Editor of Journal of the Plague Years (www.journaloftheplagueyears.ink.) Reporter, columnist, and essayist for magazines including GQ, Vogue, Salon.

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