An Evening with Emily St. John Mandel

Emily St. John Mandel, the bestselling author of Station Eleven, discusses her new novel Exit Party – a mind-bending story of crime, love and loss that unfolds across space and time.

In 2014, Emily St. John Mandel shot to international fame with Station Eleven, her eerily prescient pandemic novel which won the Arthur C. Clarke Award and was adapted into an acclaimed HBO miniseries in 2021.

Now, in Exit Party, her kaleidoscopic new novel, she turns her attention to questions of surveillance, freedom and power. Moving between a fractured America, a domed Paris and alternate worlds, the story follows a mystery that refuses to stay contained within a single reality – and characters whose lives are shaped by forces they cannot see or understand.

For the first time in Melbourne, Mandel joins host Kate Mildenhall to speak about the ways societies and individuals respond to crisis and the themes to which she returns throughout her work: art and survival, love and loss and our capacity to endure when the world as we know it comes crashing down.