Emily St. J. Mandel
@EmilyMandel
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Six novels, including Sea of Tranquility, The Glass Hotel, and Station Eleven. Instagram: @emilystjohnmandel .
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Friends, did you know that if you have a Wikipedia page and you get a divorce, the only way to update your Wikipedia is to say you’re divorced in an interview?
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Also if you’re reading this and you’re one of my girlfriend’s friends, she’s not actually dating a married woman, it’s just that my wikipedia page is a time capsule
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So anyway all I want for Christmas is for a journalist writing a story for publication (online-only is fine!) to ask me if I’m still married
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“I have a job too,” my four-year-old announced, on quarantine day 51. “I’m a publisher in the enchanted forest.”
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Good morning! My sixth novel is called Sea of Tranquility, and it's coming out next April. A friend told me to stop referring to it as "deranged," but it's set partly in a moon colony and has a time traveler in it.
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Taking a break from Twitter to work on new book, back in 2021. Stay alive, stay sane, and keep reading books.
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“Lots of great tension here, but I wonder if we need the polar vortex that freezes all the marigolds on day 59 of quarantine? Is it possible that a polar vortex in May during a pandemic might seem like a bit much?” -Editorial notes if today were in one of my manuscripts
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I appreciate this so much! Thank you.
I always look forward to sharing my lists of favorite books, movies, and music with all of you.
First up, here are some of the books I read and enjoyed this year. Let me know which books I should check out in 2023.
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To all the distressed readers in my mentions: we’re in agreement that it just wasn’t a great week to start reading Station Eleven, and I don’t like to think about the coronavirus either.
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Here's the Station Eleven trailer. If anyone needs me, I'll just be over here watching it over and over again because I can't quite believe it's real.
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@SMG8816
Getting divorced is like having a second full-time job for several months! The administrative burden is INSANE
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Fair point, but I'll bet he had childcare.
Just a reminder that when Shakespeare was quarantined because of the plague, he wrote King Lear.
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My new novel comes out today in Canada and the United States! Friends, I promise that The Glass Hotel is 100% pandemic-free. I don't think anyone in the book even catches a cold.
🎉 THE GLASS HOTEL by
@EmilyMandel
is finally here! 🎉
Get your hands on one of the most anticipated novels of the year according to
@nytimesbooks
,
@EW
,
@BuzzFeedBooks
,
@goodreads
, and more at
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"When you're traveling, it's as if my heart ceases to exist," says my 6-year-old re: my business trips, and I think I'm going to cite this every time I decline an out-of-town event from now on
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if you’re at MSP airport and looking for a book, there’s a signed Sea of Tranquility at Words bookstore by gate C12
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"I'm not remotely interested in your pettifogging objection, chuntered inelegantly from a sedentary position." - John Bercow in the UK Parliament last night, also my standard response to bad reviews from now on
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If you’re in Chicago-O’Hare and in a book-buying mood, I just signed all the copies of Sea of Tranquillity at the Barbara’s Bookstore by gate H4
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#publishingpaidme
Advances for 5 novels (US rights only:)
Last Night in Montreal: $7k
The Singer’s Gun: $10k
The Lola Quartet: $15k
Station Eleven: $210k
The Glass Hotel: $800k
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Sea of Tranquility has been longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award!
Longlisted for the 2023
#DublinLitAward
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St John Mandel
@EmilyMandel
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I ordered something online and had to email customer service re: shipping. Rep responded with a solution and a P.S.: "Can't wait to read The Glass Hotel!"
In conclusion, my publicists have publicity superpowers and I'm extremely grateful for their work.
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Casting news!
mackenzie davis will be starring alongside himesh patel in the limited series adaptation of
@emilymandel
’s bestseller station eleven.
she will be playing kirsten raymonde, performer for the post-apocalyptic shakespeare troupe known simply as the travelling symphony.
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Casting news! I am so looking forward to watching this.
Gael García Bernal Joins ‘Station Eleven’ HBO Max Limited Series As Recurring
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#DressLikeAWoman
: New York Magazine, late 2015, seven months pregnant. They said I could be any literary character I wanted.
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Fiction writers: are you looking for a new place to submit your work? It turns out you can invent a story about designing a website for a guy who never asked for one and submit it to the Supreme Court
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I'm just going to leave this here
'Maniac' creator to helm 'Made for Love,' 'Station Eleven' for WarnerMedia
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Great piece about my incredible editor
@JennyeJackson
, who's been editing my novels since Station Eleven and just casually wrote her own novel on the side, nbd:
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Himesh Patel's performance was incredible.
Already depressed about the idea of Himesh Patel's work in
#StationEleven
not getting recognized at the Emmys. Ep. 9 was an incredible tour de force that few actors could have pulled off with so much grace and compassion. Remember the name, this guy is going places
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I'm so happy to see all of the Station Eleven Emmy nominations today. I'm slightly biased, but god I love that show. I couldn't have asked for or imagined a better adaptation of my work.
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On the other hand, I feel a ghastly new camaraderie with friends in the UK, like "from one crumbling state to another, I salute you"
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It's true, I just spent a month in L.A. working on TV adaptations of The Glass Hotel and Sea of Tranquility with
@patrickerville
and the rest of the Station Eleven team, and the project makes me so happy.
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I don’t know what your dream is, Netflix, but my dream is that you’ll pay the writers and actors who made the content that made you a $4.49 billion profit last year.
Don't give up on your dreams (unless you're a screenwriter or an actor with no streaming residuals). Current Netflix marketing copy sounding pretty tone deaf in the context of the double strikes.
#SAGAFTRAstrike
#WGAStrike
#marketing
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My first drafts have all been terrible. Anything good in any of my novels has appeared over the course of multiple rounds of obsessive revision
for the love of pete can somebody help me truly believe it’s okay to write a crappy first draft
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Here’s a cool marketing campaign: if you pre-order The Glass Hotel from a participating independent bookstore in the US, you get a retro-style hotel keychain! But only while supplies last. Ask your local bookstore about it if interested.
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My brain thinking about how a possible Glass Hotel TV series could link to TV versions of Sea of Tranquility and Station Eleven
My brain reading Glass Hotel after reading Sea of Tranquility and Station Eleven by
@EmilyMandel
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@ambernoelle
@victoriabwrites
I employed an almost-full-time nanny for three years, and am completely onboard with this tweet. There's a reason why she's the final name in the acknowledgments of my new book; the book would have taken like five extra years to write if she hadn't been taking care of my kid.
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Main takeaway from the tour: if you think time travel creates an infinite loop, try writing a book with an autofictional book tour in it. I've spent the last several months promoting a book about promoting a book
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I spent my weekend signing books all over NYC. Freshly signed books will be available tomorrow at WORD, Books Are Magic, Greenlight (both locations), McNally Jackson (all locations), Shakespeare & Co Broadway, Rizzoli, Three Lives, and Corner Bookstore.
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I appreciate this so much! Thank you.
I’ve read a couple of great books this year and wanted to share some of my favorites so far. What have you been reading this summer?
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Having a hard time processing the fact that Station Eleven just tweeted at me
@james_meader
@EmilyMandel
@hbomax
@AAKnopf
@VintageAnchor
Our lived experiences can be quite touching.
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This morning my four-year-old stood on the terrace and did a kind of primal scream/roar like a small quarantined lion, and I was like “I understand and feel exactly the same way, and I’ll bet the neighbors do too.”
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If anyone needs me today, I’ll just be moving a space heater from room to room in my Brooklyn apartment and tormenting myself by repeatedly checking the Los Angeles weather forecast
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So great to live in a country where any boy can grow up to be president.
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New morning habit: checking Twitter first thing over coffee just to see if Twitter still exists
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Yes! We definitely can, just as soon as there's a fair deal from the AMPTP. That afternoon I went directly from the Sirius XM studios to the WGA picket line.
#wgastrong
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Clearing out my office for a renovation, and the old notebooks are wild. Look,
@patrickerville
, it’s early-2012 Dr. Eleven!
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"What do you do?"
"I'm a writer."
"That how you make your living?"
"I also have a day job."
"So it's a hobby."
"I wouldn't say that, no."
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Good morning! There's a special American independent bookstore edition of Sea of Tranquility, available for preorder. I wrote an extra chapter for it. Here's where you can find your closest participating indie bookstore:
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She deserves all the awards. I'd like to think we're in a timeline where HBO Max greenlights The Glass Hotel and then Danielle wins an Emmy for her starring role in that story
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Something I took for granted in all of my pre-Covid book events: not having to maintain my train of thought on camera while trying to get a four-year-old who’s mad about bedtime to let go of my face
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We really would. And then after The Glass Hotel, we'd like to stick around and make Sea of Tranquility. Also I grew up there and still had to google "sea wolf."
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@Darinstrauss
My French editor has a fun story about a novel translated from English into French: in the original, a character walked into a topless bar, which in the translation was rendered as "a bar without a roof"
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Deeply moved by
@MichaelGreyeyes
’s words about Station Eleven. I can’t imagine any book having a better champion.
"What this book does, at every single moment, is it turns away from despair and chooses grace." — On day three of
#CanadaReads
, actor
@MichaelGreyeyes
explained how Station Eleven by
@EmilyMandel
remains hopeful despite impossible circumstances.
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It’s one of the all time worst books for airplane reading, honestly.
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I'd love recommendations for a good book or book series for a 12-year-old boy. I bought him Susan Cooper's The Dark Is Rising series a year or two ago and he really liked it.
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The Gone Girl with the Dragon Tattoo on the Train: the most data-heavy piece I've ever written,
@FiveThirtyEight
:
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Miranda and a colleague in a convention centre at the end of the world. I think Danielle Deadwyler is spectacular in this role.
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I miss cafes as much as the next person, but I feel like I'd maybe prefer to stay home if going out means wearing a pool noodle hat.
HAD TO HAPPEN > German cafes have customers wear pool noodles to enforce social distancing :
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Hello. Here is a new short story about time travel that I wrote for Slate.
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Casting news! Danielle Deadwyler is playing Miranda in Station Eleven. I think she'll be amazing.
TV News Roundup: Danielle Deadwyler Joins HBO Max’s ‘Station Eleven’ Adaptation
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@ChuckWendig
The capital of Saskatchewan is the city of Regina, which is not a great name for a city—it rhymes in an unfortunate manner—but used to be even worse. The city’s former name was Pile of Bones.
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I quit my day job yesterday. There were fireworks over NYC last night. I'm just going to pretend this wasn't a complete coincidence.
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My UK publisher’s sprayed-edges game is unsurpassed
We have
#Signed
#Limited
#Editions
with beautiful sprayed page end pages of
#SeaofTranquility
by
@EmilyMandel
@Picador
@PanMacPinboard
available now in
#Haverfordwest
#Pembrokeshire
How colourful are these?
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Taking a break from Twitter to get more writing done, back in 2022. Still on Instagram, because I find it vastly less distracting than Twitter: if you're there too, I'm
@emilystjohnmandel
.
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Zero because I'm home with a four-year-old and childcare is a dim memory from the lost world
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It’s almost like without professional writers, these people are unable to craft a narrative that doesn’t make them sound like deranged Disney villains
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I feel like at this point my phone should know me well enough to stop auto-correcting "sci-fi" to 1) "sci-go" and then 2) "sci-if"
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In a more perfect and less contagious world, I would of course prefer to meet all of you in person, but I have four online events this week and it would be lovely if you'd join in:
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You don’t have to be a WGA member to join a WGA picket. Supporters are welcome and numbers matter.
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Unexpected quarantine side effect: I was always so obsessive about protecting my daughter's privacy and now she's crashing half my Instagram Live events
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This is landscaping gravel. As illustrated below, you put a few inches of it in the bottom of your planter before adding soil, to improve drainage and prevent root rot. Thank you for coming to my container gardening seminar.
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I'm very skeptical of imploding offshore crypto exchanges. I don't want to say their founders takes on literature are never worth reading, but
This, from an interview with Sam Bankman-Fried (whose crypto exchange has just imploded) is very funny. That loser Tolstoy. Think of the time he could have saved.
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My candle burns at both ends
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends—
It gives a lovely light!
-the EStVM poem I think about the most often
I love this 1930 portrait of a young Edna St Vincent Millay by Berenice Abbott, who knew her in the queer and lesbian circles of Greenwich Village. The tie, the haunted eyes, the glow of her face.
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If I spoke at your school / one town one read event / local book festival between 2015-2020 and this sounds oddly familiar, it's because I gave my Station Eleven lecture to a character in Sea of Tranquility. "What if it always IS the end of the world?" was my favourite part.
Apocalypse as a way of life:
“When have we ever believed that the world wasn’t ending? What if it always is the end of the world?” —
@EmilyMandel
, Sea of Tranquility
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I am so grateful to be traveling again after two years of pandemic stasis, and also passing through JFK Terminal 4 for a fourth time in four days feels like a notably insane personal travel milestone
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“Gets existential and weird fast” should maybe be on my business cards. I enjoyed this conversation!
My conversation with
@EmilyMandel
gets wonderfully existential and weird, fast. Come to hear one of your favorite novelists, stay for a lot of reflections on time, death, and whether we can ever know that much about the true nature of reality...
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Update: this worked but somehow cost $40
Tonight in pandemic parenting: I’m paying my 6-year-old $20 to put herself to bed, because her other parent’s in quarantine, I’ve got a Zoom event, and I don’t want to expose a babysitter.
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People who find Station Eleven "too comforting": look, I killed off 99.99% of the population with a superflu.
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One of my favourite things about being in Hong Kong: everyone I work with these days is in North America or Europe, so the last work email of the day rolls in by like 9am local time and I haven’t been this relaxed in years
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It’s a beautiful day to picket the NBC upfronts at Radio City Music Hall. Come join me!
#wgastrong
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So anyway, I have a new theory about Mona Lisa's smile. I think she was maybe an author in a signing line.
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I really appreciate this thoughtful piece by
@xwaldie
. "Art can know things that artists don’t" is a line that will haunt me in the best possible way.
In her new novel, “Sea of Tranquility,” Emily St. John Mandel weds a sharp, ambivalent self-accounting to a speculative epic.
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