Emily St. John Mandel

@emilymandel.bsky.social

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Six books including Sea of Tranquility, The Glass Hotel, and Station Eleven. St. John is just my middle name; the books go under M.

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Wow, “Alice Munro was a monster” is a plot twist I didn’t see coming

Is there someone I could bribe to turn off the music in the Grand Rapids airport

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I salute E. Jean Carroll and Stormy Daniels for being braver than all three branches of our government.

Highlight of my week: getting to be the one to tell an acquaintance that Trump was convicted on all counts. The way her face lit up!

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Every day a new horror in Gaza worse than the day before. Unrelenting, intolerable.

Is there a better real-world example of entropy than packing for a move? First box: Fiction 1 / authors with surnames beginning AA-AB. Last box: a frying pan. Some little plastic unicorns. All the stuff on my bedside table. A bottle of hand sanitizer. A live plant.

If Trump gets elected again, I feel like Canada would be happy to pay for a wall along the U.S./Canada border

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The existence of the writing retreat suggests the existence of the writing attack. *unsheathes a fountain pen* We ride at dawn.

I’m doing this postcard auction in support of The Common magazine, but I actually never have postcards on hand, so the winner gets a letter: event.auctria.com/d52bfb75-72e...

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I'm finally breaking down and asking for your help. Ten months of unemployment have crushed my soul. I've started a GoFundMe to help pay the rent, medical bills, and keep my cats fed. If you know me, you know I hate asking for help. Consider sharing this, please? And thank you.

Please help me pay my rent and medical bills, organized by Colleen Lindsaygofund.me Hi, my name is Colleen and I'm asking for help. Those of you who know me… Colleen Lindsay needs your support for Please help me pay my rent and medical bills

Geeking out with @minjinlee.bsky.social and Hernan Diaz over on Planet Money: www.npr.org/podcasts/510...

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Man, when *IBM* says you're too chummy with Nazis to work with...

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Die SFF-News. Diesmal mit einer sehr traurigen Nachricht. www.tor-online.de/magazin/mehr...

News: Phantastik-Bestenliste November 2023www.tor-online.de Außerdem in unseren SFF News: Ein erster Trailer zu Marvels Echo, Emily St. John Mandel zu Gast in Berlin, die Talkien-Gesprächsrunde zu Queerness in der Phantastik und eine traurige Meldung zu Arnd...

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It is unforgivable that Hollywood workers have to go one more day, hour or minute without work because studios and streamers are insisting on this greedy, ghoulish bullshit.

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50,000+ people are locked in their homes, literally hostage to this country’s refusal to restrict access to guns

Let the travel to far-away towns and random universities begin!

I’m very happy to say that Station Eleven is back on the NEA Big Read list this year. Here’s the link for grant applications: www.arts.gov/news/press-r...

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The Brooklyn Public Library has announced that any teenager in America is now eligible for a Brooklyn Public Library card. Teens can sign out ebooks + audiobooks from wherever they live. The move is designed to combat censorship, with some titles listed as "always available." 📚

I have a few invite codes to give away. I don’t want to post on X / Twitter again, but please hit me up if you know someone* who needs a Bluesky code! * ideally someone sane who doesn’t yell a lot

I don’t know, I mean I get that the IRS needs to verify my identity, but I feel like the question of where my dead father currently lives is maybe a little bit theologically beyond the scope of my federal tax return?

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This is the literary equivalent of the dudes who think they could win a fight with a grizzly.

If you told me this was a parody account of a mediocre alt-right white man I would believe you, alas

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Hey, all. Julie Rehmeyer has made it easy to donate Blue Sky invite codes to folks in the disability community for whom Twitter was a crucial support. If you have extras you can drop them here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

BlueSky Invites for the Chronic Illness Communitydocs.google.com Please fill out this form if you're the chronic illness community and you'd like to either (1) donate invite codes or (2) request an invite.

I’d say this banned-books story horrifies me because I’m queer, but honestly I don’t think I’d be less horrified if I were straight. It’s the kind of insanity that should worry anyone who cares about a) living in a free society or b) other people. popular.info/p/florida-sc...

Florida school district orders librarians to purge all books with LGBTQ characterspopular.info Librarians in public schools in Charlotte County, Florida, were instructed by the school district superintendent to remove all books with LGBTQ characters or themes from school and classroom libraries...

Fellow WGA writers: SAG-AFTRA walked the line with us from day 1. Let’s join them on their picket lines this week.

Deeply grateful to the WGA Negotiating Committee, who went boldly into the depths of the Sherman Oaks Galleria and did not waver. Thank you! [Photo: the WGA Negotiating Committee on September 24th 2023, the night they reached a tentative agreement with the AMPTP]

Really loved this strange beautiful thing

I’m very proud of this. spotify.link/NP0NGba07Cb

Also if anyone needs a quick hook for a limitations-of-machine-learning think piece: we’re like 5 months into the strike and my iPhone still helpfully corrects “picket” to “pocket”, also we’re 7.6 years into my daughter’s life and my phone thinks her name might be either Casserole or Cassette

Usually I picket out of a sense of duty, but this time? Really actively looking forward to picketing, because the Drew Barrymore video was that stupid. I’m 100% financially responsible for my 7-year-old. The WGA is our health insurance.