Station Eleven: Parts 3-4

Close Reads Podcast

Goldberry Studios

Arts, Books

4.4 • 823 Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Welcome back to our discussion of Emily St. John Mandel’s award-winning, best-selling contemporary novel, Station Eleven.

Topics of conversation on this first episode include:

* the winding way in which the book reveals itself

* the moral universe (and telos) that the book seems to be setting forth

* Mandel’s unique ability to craft characters which seem alive

* and much, much more.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Heidi White.
0:04.0	And I'm Sean Johnson.
0:06.0	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.
0:15.9	And today we're talking about parts three and four.
0:18.1	Sean, how are you doing?
0:19.9	I'm doing well, Heidi.
0:21.5	How are you?
0:22.5	I'm doing great.
0:23.2	So the reason that we're so deadpanning this
0:25.2	is because we see each other like every day.
0:27.7	Right now we're in that intense recording season of the month
0:30.7	when we're doing the mystery recording.
0:33.9	And last night we had our live poetry hour,
0:36.7	although eaters are listening on a different time.
0:40.0	That's right. But it's been less than 24 hours since we have time traveled. Yeah, it's a little bit.
0:46.2	Yeah. We're going back. We're going forward. So Sean and I see each other all the time. We know exactly how each other are doing.
0:54.6	But anyway, good to see you again.
0:57.0	Good to be here.
0:57.5	I never get tired of seeing and talking to you, Sean Johnson.
0:59.9	That's right.
1:00.6	I have one question.
1:02.2	Would it be more literary to pronounce her name Emily Sinjin Mandel?
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