Reading Programs, Resources, and Communities: Station Eleven (Fall 2017)

About the Author:  

Emily St. John Mandel is the author of four novels, most recently Station Eleven, which was a finalist for a National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner award, and won the 2015 Arthur C. Clarke Award. She lives in New York City with her family.

To find out more about Emily St. John Mandel, visit the author's website at http://www.emilymandel.com/​.

Photo Credit: Dese'Rae L. Stage

• Listen to this NPR interview above with Emily St. John Mandel. 
   
• Read this interview from the National Book Foundation with Mandel, 2014 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction. 
   
• Read this The Millions interview with Mandel - she is also a staff writer for this online magazine. 
   
• Watch this 2016 Book View Now interview from the AWP Conference & Book Fair.

Scheduled events: 

• Lecture by author Emily St. John Mandel: Tuesday, September 12, 2017, 7:30pm, CUB Ballroom
• Small group book discussions: Thursday, September 14, 11:30-1:00, varied locations
• Film series: 
  • ​Contagion: Wednesday, September 27, 7:00pm, McCreary 101
  • How to Survive a Plague: Thursday, October 12, 7:00pm, McCreary 101
• Spring theatrical production: King Lear by Shakespeare, directed by Chris Kauffman, March 1-3, 2018, Majestic Theater

**Note:  This site will be updated throughout summer 2017 as more events are added.  For additional information, please contact Kerri Odess-Harnish at kodessha@gettysburg.edu.

• "The World is Ending, and Readers Couldn't Be Happier" (The New York Times, September 5, 2014)
• "Shakespeare for Survivors" (The New York Times, September 12, 2014)
• "Sci-fi and Fantasy by Emily St. John Mandel..." (The Washington Post, September 16, 2014)
• "Emily St. John Mandel's Gripping Apocalypse Drama (The Guardian, September 25, 2014)
• "Sorry, Emily St. John Mandel: Resistance is Futile" (The Washington Post, October 31, 2014
• "The Book We're Talking About: 'Station Eleven' by Emily St. John Mandel" (Huffington Post, December 23, 2014)
• Winner of the 2015 Morning News Tournament of Books (March 31, 2015)

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