RAY BRADBURY AND THE LAST GLOBAL PANDEMIC

I recently wrote an essay for the Los Angeles Review of Books about the flu pandemic of 1918 and its tragic impact on Ray Bradbury’s family and, ultimately, the development of his imagination and the themes so central to his voluminous body of work. A few folks have since asked if I plan on doing more of these “deep dive” scholarly essays related to Ray’s life and work. The answer is most definitely, yes! I am currently working on three separate Bradbury essays. Coupled with the ones I have already written and published, I hope to release a new collection of these essays in the not-too-distant future.