Iwill be forever grateful to Lily King for her 2020 book “Writers and Lovers,” which was the first novel to break me out of my COVID pandemic disorientation that left me — and many others, as I recall — unable to read with any kind of sustained concentration.

“Writers and Lovers” is the story of Casey, an aspiring writer mostly working as a server, who finds herself tugged between an older, established writer (Oscar) with two young boys and a younger contemporary (Silas), who is also a writer, and a bit of a flake, but knocks her socks off with a mere kiss.

One woman, two men, either or neither of whom could be good partners in her quest to finish the novel she’s been working on for years and kick off her life as a writer. It’s sort of a grown-up version of the current teen sensation, “T

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