Book · 2014 · Fiction
Station Eleven
A Novel (National Book Award Finalist)
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Sea of Tranquility by Emily St John Mandel who wrote station 11 which is a book about a pandemic that was phenomenal before the pandemics.
What they say about it
- Discussed by Tyler Cowen6
- Book about a pandemic“a book about a pandemic”5
The best things said about it
I very much recommend emily's latest book the glass hotel also station eleven the book about a pandemic and she has three other earlier novels which are beloved in france and deservedly so emily thank you very much.
Tyler Cowen Conversations with Tyler · Apr 2020 So I inhaled all of station 11 I binged it this is a adaptation of Emily St John Mandel's pandemic novel which actually came out in 2014.
This is a book that became very popular during the early days of the pandemic.
Now your previous book station 11 which of course is about a pandemic a reader writes to me quote i believe that she has described station 11 as paraphrasing a valentine to the modern world.
Tyler Cowen Conversations with Tyler · Apr 2020 Where and when it comes up
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How it comes up
Most mentions, by podcast
6 people who brought it up
Why people recommend it
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel is a post-apocalyptic pandemic novel that follows a troupe of actors and musicians wandering through a collapsed civilization. The book has drawn significant literary attention and widespread praise. On Pod Save America, Jon Favreau recommended the novel as a phenomenal pandemic story written before the actual global health crisis, while Tyler Cowen similarly endorsed it on Conversations with Tyler alongside her other works, noting its massive commercial success. Cultural commentators and critics, including Tina Jordan, Alexandra Alter, and Gilbert Cruz, discussed the novel extensively on The Book Review, reflecting on how editors championed the book before publication, how readers embraced it during the early days of the pandemic, and how it serves as a hopeful dystopian narrative. Additionally, Rich Roll explored the novel on The Rich Roll Podcast while introducing a discussion about the television adaptation, noting its haunting prescience regarding modern society.
Every mention
Tyler Cowen i very much recommend emily's latest book the glass hotel also station eleven the book about a pandemic and… 6
Discussed
“uh her biggest selling book to date is station 11.”
Discussed
“now your previous book station 11 which of course is about a pandemic a reader writes to me quote i believe that she has described station 11 as paraphrasing a valentine to the modern world”
Discussed
“so in station 11 as you know an airport serves as a kind of museum of civilization if we had an airport as our museum of civilization what is the biggest bias we would come away with trying to understand our civilization”
Recommended
“i very much recommend emily's latest book the glass hotel also station eleven the book about a pandemic and she has three other earlier novels which are beloved in france and deservedly so emily thank you very much”
Discussed
“after that I think it's Emily st. John Mandel who wrote station 11 which coincidentally is a book about pandemics and she has a new book out”
Discussed
“Emily st. John Mandel just tweeted I think this morning that there's this risk of a pandemic with coronavirus and she wrote a novel about a pandemic that is really truly horrible kills most people in the world”
Jon Favreau Sea of Tranquility by Emily St John Mandel who wrote station 11 which is a book about a pandemic that was p… 1
Recommended
“Sea of Tranquility by Emily St John Mandel who wrote station 11 which is a book about a pandemic that was phenomenal before the pandemics”
Alexandra Alter so I inhaled all of station 11 I binged it this is a adaptation of Emily St John Mandel's pandemic novel wh… 1
Discussed
“so I inhaled all of station 11 I binged it this is a adaptation of Emily St John Mandel's pandemic novel which actually came out in 2014”
Gilbert Cruz there was station 11 by Emily St John Mandel this is a book that became very popular during the early days… 1
Discussed
“there was station 11 by Emily St John Mandel this is a book that became very popular during the early days of the pandemic”
Rich Roll It's based on a novel by Emily St. John Mandel, that became a big deal, sold a lot of copies. And it's this… 1
Discussed
“It's based on a novel by Emily St. John Mandel, that became a big deal, sold a lot of copies. And it's this, for those that haven't seen or don't know anything about it, "Station Eleven" is kind of this post-apocalyptic pandemic story that actually they started filming before the pandemic.”
Tina Jordan and let me give you an example years ago Emily St John Mandel station 11 was a book like that the editor wh… 1
Discussed
“and let me give you an example years ago Emily St John Mandel station 11 was a book like that the editor who was previewing it for the book review read it passed it around and said you guys have to read this”
Also mentioned in the same episodes
Other mentions (7: passing, ad reads, own books)
Passing
“Exit Party by Emily St. John Mandel who you may remember from Station 11.”
Plugged
“any money that i have comes from the wild success of station 11 my previous book and that is which is also going to be a mini series”
Plugged
“i've done a lot of lectures over the past few years for station 11.”
Plugged
“but station 11 is a fundamentally hopeful book and i've you know just going from the extremely unscientific metric of my twitter timeline um i get the impression that a lot of people are reading it because of the hope you know at the end of the pandemic”
Plugged
“so they have a number of common characters miranda i think is the same miranda liam provent is the same first and last name what's your meta take on the two novels and their overleaf”
Passing
“was because it got a blurb from Emily St John mandal who wrote station 11 which is one of my favorite books of the last four years”
Passing
“and one last big seller station 11”