The Interrupted Life is a collection of narrative audio stories told before and during the coronavirus outbreak. Our work came out of Telling True Stories in Sound, a Columbia Journalism School class led by Daniel Alarcón and Heba Elorbany.

 

Before the pandemic, our stories took place where we lived—New York City. We reported on troubled love, lost musical movements, stolen diamonds, and more.

 

But then on March 8, our campus closed. Our classes moved online. And one by one, we dispersed, many far from New York. 

 

Despite the interruption, we kept reporting. 

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Many of our stories responded to coronavirus and how it altered our lives. Our devices have become portals into other quarantines — where a woman grapples with her OCD, an opera singer continues to perform, and our peers come to terms with their families, their memories, and themselves.  

 

From New York and everywhere, this is The Interrupted Life.