Emily St. John Mandel
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Emily St. John Mandel in conversation with Daniel Handler Friday, September 18, 2026 7:30pm Pacific Time KQED Broadcast: 10/04/2026, 10/06/2026, 10/07/2026 Venue: Sydney Goldstein Theater Tickets Emily St. John Mandel’s award-winning novels invite readers to reimagine how we relate to art, freedom, and hope. With fans like Barack Obama, and the HBO adaptation of her post-apocalyptic novel Station Eleven , Mandel continues her visionary career with her new novel Exit Party , an exploration of surveillance and identity set in a future United States embroiled in a new civil war. Emily St. John Mandel , a bestselling and beloved novelist, refuses to stay tied to a single genre. Her work experiments with literary noir, speculative fiction, post-apocolytic, and horror, always building an inventive, luminous, and challenging vision of our world. Her breakout novel Station Eleven , a moving portrayal of art and human connection across a post-apocolytic landscape was adapted into a limited seri
