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Emily St. John Mandel

Author, Exit Party

I just read a novel that I really liked called The Silver Book by Olivia Laing. They’re a British author — and they’re really, really good, one of those writers who I would read anything they publish at this point. It’s a queer love story that’s also about Italian cinema in the 1970s — just a really interesting work. And I’m about to start the novel Sunrise by Téa Obreht.

Emily St. John Mandel (Photo by Matt Licari/Invision/AP)

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