Station Eleven: Parts 5-6
Close Reads Podcast
Goldberry Studios
4.4 • 823 Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2024
⏱️ 51 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. In this episode we discuss the characters’ longing for connection—both to their old world and to other people (and the question of hope that the book raises therein).
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Heidi White. |
| 0:04.1 | And I'm Sean Johnson. |
| 0:05.8 | 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, Chapter 5 and 6. |
| 0:18.5 | And the day that we are recording it is November 6th, which is the day after the election. |
| 0:26.1 | So lots of things have changed in the last 24 hours. We have a new president-elect. And there are a lot of pundits and people responding to that. |
| 0:39.1 | And we are not going to talk about any of that on this show. |
| 0:42.5 | If you're a British listener, maybe you still have some burnt out fireworks to clear away from Guy Fawkes Day. |
| 0:51.3 | Oh, yeah. It was also Guy Fawkes Day. |
| 0:53.7 | Yeah. So maybe you were just burning some people in |
| 0:56.2 | effigy and having some firework fun. I didn't even think of that one single time yesterday. |
| 1:01.4 | Not for a minute. So thank you, Sean, for reminding us that there is a whole big world |
| 1:07.2 | and not just, not just America. I did make an apple pie it's tradition |
| 1:14.1 | I make one every election day oh um this time I almost didn't because I didn't know if |
| 1:25.0 | America deserved the pie but then I don't deserve the pie so that's if America deserved the pie. But then I thought the pie. So |
| 1:29.4 | That's right. You wanted the pie. |
| 1:31.8 | Yeah. Yeah. And I buy |
| 1:33.2 | one I buy this wine every time called the Federalist. |
| 1:35.8 | It has like a big eagle on the front of the bottle. |
| 1:38.8 | I want to say I do it ironically. |
| 1:41.4 | Period. But you still drink it. |
| 1:44.4 | Yeah. Yeah. |
| 1:45.1 | Yeah. |
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