Deborah A. Macey is an independent scholar and editor.Michelle Napierski-Prancl is professor of sociology and faculty director of the Women’s Institute at Russell Sage College. David Staton is associate professor at the University of Northern Colorado where he teaches in the Department of Journalism and Media Studies.

Persevering during the Pandemic: Stories of Resilience, Creativity, and Connection is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding the COVID-19 pandemic period and how it felt as a lived experience in both our daily lives and our reactions to the larger political and media events that emerged during the pandemic. Taken together, these chapters offer a lucid and provocative exploration of the strategies that we employed to come to terms with and make sense of our altered landscapes. A must-read for anyone interested in understanding the archeology of the strategies we employed during a period we are still living through but have yet to fully comprehend.

• Chapter 1: Introduction: Documenting Pandemic StoriesMichelle Napierski-Prancl, David Staton, and Deborah A. MaceySection 1: Communication & ResilienceChapter 2: “Don’t worry, we’re gonna figure this out”: Exploring Resilient Pedagogy during the COVID-19 PandemicMatthew J. Manierre, Jan DeWaters, Seema Rivera, and Martha WhalenChapter 3: COVID-19 Moments: The Photographic Narratives of Resilience and Productivity among MotherScholarsSarah Symonds LeBlanc, Elizabeth Spradley, Heather Olson Beal, Lauren Burrow, and Chrissy CrossChapter 4: The Ritual of the Bering Sea: Commodity, Country, and Mortality in The Deadliest CatchDerek MoscatoChapter 5: Developing Voice Resilience: Building on Spiral of Silence TheoryAlana M. Nicastro and Shelly M. ValdezChapter 6: What Reassurance? What Reality?: Governor Cuomo, COVID-19, and the Politics of Masculine ProtectionLaurie E. NaranchSection 2: Creativity & ProductivityChapter 7: Being There and Not: Slippery Simulacrums of Song