Ten Quick Links for Sunday Afternoon

Audible is offering free books for kids while schools are closed. Titles include Winnie the Pooh, Anne of Green Gables, The Jungle Book, and Brave New World. [stories.audible.com]

US box office drops 97% year-on-year on Wednesday to reach historic low. 97%. [theguardian.com]

Due to the absence of humans in outdoor spaces, the re-wilding of the world has begun. [thisiscolossal.com]

The first lines of classic novels rewritten for social distancing. "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be hoarding toilet paper." [lithub.com]

Just sent out the latest issue of the @kottke newsletter. I made a few formatting tweaks…more to come. [mailchi.mp]

A simple symptoms checker for COVID-19 [c19check.com]

Ed Yong, one of the best science writers out there, has constructed "a rough preliminary portrait of SARS-CoV-2": where it came from, what makes it unusual, what it does inside a person, etc. [theatlantic.com]

Steven Heller is right – this is an awful magazine cover by New York magazine. The wrong tone at the wrong time. Ad/marketing/media folks need to rethink these "attention at all costs" strategies. [printmag.com]

"Despite beginning this venture with the highest aspirations, we are announcing the closure of our beloved homeschool after less than 24 hours." [mcsweeneys.net]

From Lynn Ungar, a poem called Pandemic. "What if you thought of it / as the Jews consider the Sabbath– / the most sacred of times?" [lynnungar.com]

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