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Emily St. John Mandel
@emilymandel.bsky.social
Six books including Sea of Tranquility, The Glass Hotel, and Station Eleven. St. John is just my middle name; the books go under M.
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.
June 24, 2025 at 1:40 PM
“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
April 30, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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
January 21, 2025 at 1:24 PM
If Trump gets elected again, I feel like Canada would be happy to pay for a wall along the U.S./Canada border
January 22, 2024 at 2:40 PM
October 10, 2023 at 8:56 PM
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?
October 10, 2023 at 12:19 PM
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
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
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