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Alumni and faculty members who would like to have their books considered for this listing should contact Stacey Himmelberger, editor of Hamilton magazine. This list, which dates back to 2018, is updated periodically with books appearing alphabetically on the date of entry.
Places I Peed During the Pandemic by Matt Levine ’83
May 22, 2025
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According to the author, this book is “a time capsule of unemployment during COVID-19. Text messages, journal entries, short essays, and lots of photos of a time when long walks were my solace, an ambulatory saving grace. No longer working two service-industry jobs, time was all my own. But pandemic unemployment didn’t unleash my creativity. Instead, it left me anxious. Neutered. I didn’t write or edit, read, or record. But I walked. Long walks, head down, all over an eerily quiet San Francisco.
“Public bathrooms were scarce. My bladder is small. Soon I began documenting my pit stops. Places I peed during the pandemic. They’re mostly triptychs documenting the spot, the stream, and the landscape, organized by date and time of day.
“I’m not an exhibitionist. But there is a time for everything.”
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