Author Emily St. John Mandel‘s award-winning novel, Station Eleven, is the latest read in Reddit’s new book club.
Yesterday, the National Book Award finalist hosted an Ask Me Anything (AMA) discussion on the site discussing her writing process and inspiration. Here is an excerpt from the Reddit AMA:
Inspirations: I’d wanted to write about the lives of actors, and wanted to write about the modern world (in terms of the technology that surrounds us, etc.), so I decided to set that theatre troupe in a post-apocalyptic landscape, because it seemed to me that an interesting way to consider the modern world would be to contemplate its absence.
I kind of doubt I’d survive the collapse described in the novel. I have some canned goods/bottled water/first aid kid on hand like all good New Yorkers, but it’s not a terribly survivable scenario. I suppose I’d just try to get out of New York.