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Emily St. John Mandel
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Six books including Sea of Tranquility, The Glass Hotel, and Station Eleven. St. John is just my middle name; the books go under M.
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Remember to vote today, New Yorkers. Rank your candidates, one through five.

The important thing is to fill in all five columns. With anyone except Cuomo, pictured here harassing a much younger woman at a wedding in 2019.
Alt: Cuomo grabbing the face of a clearly uncomfortable younger woman at a party
June 24, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?”
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
NYT headline: “Kennedy Advises New Parents to ‘Do Your Own Research’ on Vaccines” Subheader: “In an interview with Dr. Phil, the health secretary offered false information about vaccine oversight and revealed a lack of basic understanding of new drug approvals.”
April 30, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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One of the many weird things about Ross Douthat’s extremely weird op-ed is that most of my American friends desperately wish they could move to Canada
From a NYT column dated 1/11/25: …I offer these bona fides, proofs of a current of maple syrup running through my children's veins, as a preface to a controversial claim: that Donald Trump's kidding-or-is-he suggestion that Canada belongs inside our union is not a threat but an opportunity, that Canada might be better off joined to our continental Republic, with the wintry 1775 defeat of Richard Montgomery and Benedict Arnold finally reversed. Today Canadian sentiment is extremely cool to this idea, with polls showing, at best, about 10 percent of Canadians open to membership in a Greater United States. And for understandable reasons, since Canadian identity is so bound up in absolutely not being the U.S.A. that, "Well, we're not American" is literally the first thing Justin Trudeau came up with to explain Canadian pride recently on CNN.
January 21, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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If Trump gets elected again, I feel like Canada would be happy to pay for a wall along the U.S./Canada border
Alt: A NYT headline reading “A Border Wall to the North? Republicans want to discuss” with a photo of U.S. Route 3, which ends at the Canadian border in Pittsburg, NY
January 22, 2024 at 2:40 PM
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First half of the poem The Second Coming, by WB Yeats: “Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.”
October 10, 2023 at 8:56 PM
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I don’t know, I mean I get that the IRS needs to verify my identity, but I feel like the question of where my dead father currently lives is maybe a little bit theologically beyond the scope of my federal tax return?
Image of a federal tax return screen with the following question: “in which of the following cities does ‘Phillip Fairbanks’ currently reside?” Options include five cities in California, but the guy’s been dead for two years
October 10, 2023 at 12:19 PM
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Deeply grateful to the WGA Negotiating Committee, who went boldly into the depths of the Sherman Oaks Galleria and did not waver. Thank you!

[Photo: the WGA Negotiating Committee on September 24th 2023, the night they reached a tentative agreement with the AMPTP]
September 25, 2023 at 4:46 PM
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It’s so weird how all these players are getting sick at the US Open during a Covid surge in NYC, will we ever find an answer to this medical mystery
September 2, 2023 at 10:59 AM
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Day 100
[alt text: approximately 2000 WGA and SAG-AFTRA members picketing in NYC because the AMPTP will not negotiate]
August 9, 2023 at 3:35 PM