Station Eleven: Chapters 6-9 (to the end)

Close Reads Podcast

Goldberry Studios

Arts, Books

4.4 • 823 Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to the conclusion of our conversation of Emily St. John Mandel’s award-winning novel (other than the Q&A episode, which will drop next week). Topics of conversation in this one include:

* The way the book contemplates whether civilization should be saved—and the way it thinks about civilization writ-large

* the notion of re-birth and purification when things crumble

* and, of course, whether Mandel lands the plane in the end.

As always, happy listening!

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Heidi White.
0:03.8	And I'm Sean Johnson.
0:05.3	And you are listening to Close Reads, a podcast for the Incurable Reader on which we are discussing Station 11 by Emily St. John Mandel, sections 7 through 9.
0:15.7	So the final chapter is the book, to the end.
0:19.3	Yeah.
0:21.3	So, Sean, we're going to skip all the small talk.
0:27.3	Oh.
0:29.6	Well, okay. Right. How are you doing, Sean?
0:32.3	Heidi, I'm just sitting in Muggy, Florida, wishing I had some snow.
0:39.1	Oh, well, you know, you are not in luck, but you would be if you were here in Colorado
0:43.7	because we have like three feet of snow.
0:46.3	Man.
0:46.6	We have this like monster early storm.
0:49.2	It was crazy.
0:51.4	Yeah, we were stuck and snowed in.
0:53.9	And you know what? I realize I realize I complain a lot about the cold. I really don't like the cold. It's not my favorite. That's just objectively true. But I realize that winter should be for us to slow down, right? It should be to like pace us so that we can be peaceful so that we can be hidden so
1:14.9	that, you know, the earth can do its work in hidden places and restoring the world, I guess.
1:24.4	But in stupid America, it's impossible.
1:29.4	You just like plow and get out there.
1:33.2	Get your kids to practice and all the things.
1:36.3	Go to work and we've got meetings and I don't know.
1:39.8	But anyway, this storm was such a surprise.
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