I wrote a micro-essay about my history with El Plague-O for Stephen Elliott’s new web site The Rumpus:
I thought that by recommending a second Camus book to bring me out of the funk the first Camus book had put me in, maybe the priest was playing Camus against Camus, in the hopes that both Camuses would collapse into a Camusiastic Singularity whose intense gravitational field would yank off the God-negating tablecloth I was suffocating under without disturbing the fine tableware of my good Episcopalian upbringing …