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Emily St. John Mandel

@emilymandel.bsky.social

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Six books including Sea of Tranquility, The Glass Hotel, and Station Eleven. St. John is just my middle name; the books go under M.

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Angry Algonquin 😸 📚 🧊 🍸 @angryalgonquin.bsky.social · 9d

A new novel by @emilymandel.bsky.social OH HELL YES

If you have not yet read "Station Eleven" or "The Glass Hotel" get to your local library, bookstore, bookshop.org or libro.fm. I would read "Station Eleven" first, just because a couple of characters from that book appear in the next one.

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Emily St. John Mandel @emilymandel.bsky.social · 16d

Did you get the one that said you’d be “added to the list of dishonest individuals”? I was insulted but also somehow charmed. Imagine a world with an official dishonest individuals list. And if you’re on it, no driving for you!

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Emily St. John Mandel @emilymandel.bsky.social · 16d

God, what an incredibly distracting news cycle. I for one have completely forgotten about the Epstein files

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · Jul 18

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

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max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 21d

The union representing the musicians from Jimmy Kimmel’s band releases a statement calling the FCC’s pressure on Disney “state censorship.”

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Sean Howe @seanhowe.bsky.social · 21d

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Emily St. John Mandel @emilymandel.bsky.social · 20d

I’ve been having the opposite problem. Part of my new novel is set in an authoritarian near-future United States, and with every passing day it’s less fictional.

Emily St. John Mandel @emilymandel.bsky.social · 26d

Congratulations Rabih! I just bought your new book last week and can’t wait to read it.

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Emily St. John Mandel @emilymandel.bsky.social · 26d

I love that line! But I can’t take credit… that line’s in the TV adaptation, not the book, so it’s @patrickerville.bsky.social

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Emily St. John Mandel @emilymandel.bsky.social · Aug 17

Thank you!

Emily St. John Mandel @emilymandel.bsky.social · Aug 12

Thank you!

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · Jul 30

NEW: 18,500 children have been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza.

The Washington Post has just published every single known name.

A seminal moment.

The WaPa headline says: 60,000 Gazans were killed. 18,500 of them were children. These are some of their names.

Then follows an enormous list of small print names

Thousands of small print names interspersed with some photos of some of the child victims

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Emily St. John Mandel @emilymandel.bsky.social · Jul 29

That’s really nice to hear. I’m anxious too and am thinking maybe I should also try audiobooks

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Emily St. John Mandel @emilymandel.bsky.social · Jul 21

Thanks! I’ll check these out.

Emily St. John Mandel @emilymandel.bsky.social · Jul 21

Thank you!

Emily St. John Mandel @emilymandel.bsky.social · Jul 18

Friends, I’d love your recommendations for hotels in Geneva.

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Emily St. John Mandel @emilymandel.bsky.social · Jul 12

Sometime in the fall of 2026. No pub date yet.

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Emily St. John Mandel @emilymandel.bsky.social · Jun 24

Thank you! My editors have the new book this week. We pass it back and forth like a football.

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Emily St. John Mandel @emilymandel.bsky.social · Jun 24

One of my wife’s relatives sent a card addressed to my wife + @emilystjams.bsky.social once, and just to close the circle I sent a picture of the envelope to Emily St. James

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Emily St. John Mandel @emilymandel.bsky.social · Jun 24

Great point, I should’ve mentioned him too!

Emily St. John Mandel @emilymandel.bsky.social · Jun 24

Remember to vote today, New Yorkers. Rank your candidates, one through five.

The important thing is to fill in all five columns. With anyone except Cuomo, pictured here harassing a much younger woman at a wedding in 2019.

Alt: Cuomo grabbing the face of a clearly uncomfortable younger woman at a party

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Emily St. John Mandel @emilymandel.bsky.social · Jun 24

Election worker: “Emily Mandel. Isn’t that a writer’s name?”
Me: “I’m a writer.”
Election worker: “Oh, I was thinking Hilary Mantel, never mind”

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · Jun 16

I don't think I've ever felt more like burning it all down than I have while witnessing the elite project to turn Zohran Mamdani and Brad Lander into scary, incompetent monsters while turning an actual incompetent monster, Andrew Cuomo, into a merely complicated fellow who just made an oopsie.

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Emily St. John Mandel @emilymandel.bsky.social · Jun 15

Same. I avoid it as much as I possibly can.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · Jun 13

We know what we have to do to save our city from Andrew Cuomo.

We're cross endorsing 🤝 @bradlander.bsky.social

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