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Station Eleven: Parts 1 & 2
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Station Eleven: Parts 1 & 2

Welcome to a new series here on Close Reads, in which we’re digging into Emily St. John Mandel’s award-winning, best-selling contemporary novel, Station Eleven, a book which became eerily prescient during peak Covid days. Topics of conversation on this first episode include:

  • the experience of reading a book which fictionalized events which almost seemed to actually have happened (sort of) . . .

  • why this novel was so popular (including during Covid lockdowns)

  • the parallels between the events of the play within the book and the events of the book itself

  • and much more

Happy listening!


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Close Reads Podcast
Close Reads is a book-club podcast for the incurable reader co-hosted by David Kern, Heidi White, Sean Johnson, and occasionally Tim McIntosh. We read good books and talk about them.
This is a show for amateurs in the best sense. This is not an experts show: we’re book lovers, book enthusiasts. Our goal is have empathetic and intelligent conversations about good books.
Close Reads is produced by Goldberry Studios, the podcast wing of Goldberry Books, a family-run indie bookshop in Concord, NC.