Ep 221 - Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel

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Books, Literature, Craig Getting, Andrew Cunningham, Arts, Podcasts, Comedy

4.6 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2017

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

What will you remember? What will you be remembered for? Emily St. John Mandel's Station Eleven asks these questions of most of its characters as they struggle to survive before and after an apocalyptic flu outbreak.

We also talk Mandel's work crunching data on novels, National Days, Corporate Speak, and what we won't miss when we lose the Internet. Don't forget to book tickets to our live show at bit.ly/libraryshow!

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0:00.0	This is a headgun podcast.
0:06.0	While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well-told
0:10.3	tale, they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary.
0:16.5	Plus these are books you should have read by now.
0:30.0	I want to do January 22 or January 23.
0:45.4	Hit me with some January 23 National Days and through.
0:50.0	It's National Handwriting Day.
0:51.8	Perfect.
0:52.8	I need to practice my time.
0:53.8	The worst day to there is.
0:54.8	Uh huh.
0:55.8	Okay.
0:56.8	My penmanship is pretty bad.
0:57.8	It's also National Pie Day.
0:58.8	Is that March 14?
1:00.8	Well, maybe that's global pot.
1:03.6	International Pie Day.
1:05.0	Maybe America decided it needed to have its own pie.
1:08.1	Okay.
1:09.1	So from NationalDayCallender.com, forward slash National Dash Pie, Dash Day, Dash January
1:15.9	Dash 23.
1:18.5	National Pie Day was created simply to celebrate the pie.
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