Station Eleven: Parts 1 & 2

Close Reads Podcast

Goldberry Studios

Arts, Books

4.4 • 823 Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

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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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Heidi White.
0:05.3	And I'm Sean Johnson.
0:06.8	And you are listening to Close Reads, a podcast for the Incurable Reader on which we are discussing Emily St. John Mandel's Station 11 winner of the National Book Award.
0:19.4	Or no, a National Book Award finalist and a bestseller for reasons we are definitely going to discuss in the first episode.
0:26.4	Yeah.
0:27.3	You may have noticed, dear listener, that you are not listening right now to David Kern's voice.
0:33.7	We are going to be recording this series with just Sean and I.
0:39.4	We can't, I mean, this is a lot to talk about here.
0:42.3	This is true.
0:42.9	Yeah.
0:43.4	We don't need this cluttered up with David.
0:45.2	I'm just kidding.
0:45.7	No.
0:47.3	We love David so much, but he is, he is focusing on doing some really cool stuff with the business.
0:56.0	So look out for that.
0:57.0	So Sean and I were like, we would be happy to talk.
1:01.0	We'll take it.
1:02.0	Just the two of us.
1:04.0	I mean, the busiest time in the bookstore biz is coming up to and he's battening down the hatches and getting ready.
1:12.0	That's right. And baseball season for the boys. That actually wasn't one of the reasons,
1:17.7	but I'm just pointing that as a tangential, interesting fact about David. That's right.
1:24.3	A little did you know. David is into his boys baseball team.
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