![]() ![]() “I remember having the thought around September that nothing about your process inspires confidence,” she finally replied. What have you made of all this? For a moment, Dean was silent. Isn’t it strange that we met nine months ago and now there’s going to be a book? he observed. ![]() In the car with Dean, Lewis mused about the relationship they had developed. But if he had been certain that his collaboration with Charity Dean would turn out well, Dean wasn’t so sure. Norton & Co., March 15, and The Premonition hit the shelves less than eight weeks later. Lewis would turn the book - his 16th - around quickly: He submitted the final manuscript to his publisher, W.W. (PAW, unlike Lewis, was still working remotely in the spring.) Now that is a very bad idea to be running around with, but I had this idea that Charity Dean is not going to infect me, she’s a local health officer! Joe DeRisi’s not going to infect me! So I was spending a lot of normal social time with people on the false premise that doctors couldn’t make you sick.” Lewis punctuates this disclosure with a loud laugh that resonates through a Zoom screen. “I had this false sense of security,” Lewis admits, “I think because I was spending all this time with doctors who are experts on the subject. “The book wasn’t reported differently than I would have done in ordinary times,” Lewis insists, but defying the lockdown was an interesting approach for someone writing about the origins of a pandemic. ![]()
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