Tyler Cowen: belief

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…Hello, everyone, and welcome to Conversations with Tyler. Today we’re here with Emily St. John Mandel, who has written two of my most favorite contemporary novels. Her new book out is The Glass Hotel, which, I think, is her very best, deepest, most subtle novel. Her biggest-selling book to date is Station Eleven. Now, it so turns out that Emily’s two books are about a pandemic and, in part, a financial crisis. Believe it or not, it is pure coincidence that I am speaking to her today. It is, in fact, that I enjoyed these novels so much, and thus a reality is, in some modest ways, catching up to what she’s been writing about. Emily, thank you for being with us. My pleasure. Thanks for interviewing me.…

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