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Published · transcript-backedTyler Cowen: belief
8 Apr 2020 Conversations with Tyler Emily St. John Mandel on Fact, Fiction, and the Familiar
“A reader writes to me, “I believe that she has described Station Eleven as, paraphrasing, ‘a valentine to the modern world.”
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- Tyler Cowen
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- 8 Apr 2020
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…Brick. I can’t remember the name of the writer-director. He just put out Knives Out. Rian Johnson. That was an amazing movie. Now, your previous book, Station Eleven, which, of course, is about a pandemic. A reader writes to me, “I believe that she has described Station Eleven as, paraphrasing, ‘a valentine to the modern world. ’ Is that true?” Definitely. The project of Station Eleven was, I wanted to set a novel in a post-technological world because I thought it might be interesting to think about and write about the modern world by contemplating its absence in the same way that you can talk about a person by delivering a eulogy. It can absolutely be read as a love letter to electricity, plane travel, antibiotics, insulin, all the trappings of civilization we tend to take for granted.…
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