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Published · transcript-backedEmily St. John Mandel: evaluation
8 Apr 2020 Conversations with Tyler Emily St. John Mandel on Fact, Fiction, and the Familiar
“I read that when I was about 15, and it blew my mind. It’s a very different apocalypse than Station Eleven, but I think of it as the book that made me first think about what a postapocalyptic world might look like.”
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- 8 Apr 2020
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…How, at all, have you been influenced by the postapocalyptic Noah story in the Bible, Book of Genesis? Not really at all. I’m not from a religious household, so I didn’t grow up with that story. I guess it doesn’t grab my imagination in a way that some other postapocalyptic stories do. The one that really grabs my imagination is a 1960 novel called A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller, which is one of my favorite books. I read that when I was about 15, and it blew my mind. It’s a very different apocalypse than Station Eleven, but I think of it as the book that made me first think about what a postapocalyptic world might look like. And that is highly religious, that book, yes?…
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