Emily St John Mandel on America's Future After Station Eleven — SkimNews
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- Emily St John Mandel is profiled in a new interview centered on her work addressing the future of the US, following the success of her hit novel Station Eleven
- Mandel discusses themes of chance, world-building, and what she describes as experiencing "a tiny bit" of clairvoyance, recalling a childhood dream she carried for decades
Why it matters: Mandel, whose Station Eleven earned a global readership for seeming to forecast the pandemic, now turns her speculative-fiction lens on contemporary America — giving literary weight to questions about the country's trajectory that the truncated source hints at but does not fully develop.
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