Welcome to a new series here on Close Reads, in which we’re digging into Emily St. John Mandel’s award-winning, best-selling contemporary novel, Station Eleven, a book which became eerily prescient during peak Covid days. Topics of conversation on this first episode include:

* the experience of reading a book which fictionalized events which almost seemed to actually have happened (sort of) . . .

* why this novel was so popular (including during Covid lockdowns)

* the parallels between the events of the play within the book and the events of the book itself

* and much more

Happy listening!

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