{"id":294500,"date":"2021-10-20T18:10:59","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T22:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yfile.news.yorku.ca\/?p=294500"},"modified":"2025-04-02T13:22:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T17:22:31","slug":"canadian-writers-in-person-features-emily-st-john-mandel-oct-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/yfile\/2021\/10\/20\/canadian-writers-in-person-features-emily-st-john-mandel-oct-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Writers in Person features Emily St. John Mandel, Oct. 26"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If you love meeting talented writers and hearing them read from their published work, or just want to soak up a unique cultural experience, don\u2019t miss the Canadian Writers in Person Lecture Series, which continues Oct. 26<\/strong> with a reading from Emily St. John Mandel<\/strong>\u2019s fifth novel, The Glass Hotel<\/a><\/em> (Penguin Random House, 2021).<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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The series gives attendees an opportunity to get up close and personal with 11 authors who will present their work and answer questions. Canadian Writers in Person is a for-credit course for students and a free-admission event for members of the public. All readings take place at 7 p.m.<\/strong> on select Tuesday evenings via Zoom. Links for each reading can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

St. John Mandel lives in New York City with her husband and daughter. Her four previous novels include Last Night In Montreal<\/em>, The Singer's Gun<\/em>, The Lola Quartet<\/em> and Station Eleven,<\/em> which was a finalist for a National Book Award and the PEN\/Faulkner Award for Fiction and has been translated into 32 languages. Her latest novel, Sea of Tranquility<\/em>, will be released in April 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Glass Hotel<\/em> is set at the glittering intersection of two seemingly disparate events \u2013 the exposure of a massive criminal enterprise and the mysterious disappearance of a woman from a ship at sea. In this captivating story of crisis and survival, St. John Mandel takes readers through often hidden landscapes: campgrounds for the near-homeless, underground electronica clubs, service in luxury hotels and life in a federal prison. Rife with unexpected beauty, The Glass Hotel<\/em> is a captivating portrait of greed and guilt, love and delusion, ghosts and unintended consequences, and the infinite ways we search for meaning in our lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year\u2019s Canadian Writers in Person Lecture Series lineup consists of a unique selection of emerging and established Canadian writers whose writing explores a broad range of topics and geographical and cultural landscapes. Featuring seasoned and emerging poets and fiction writers, the series highlights Canada\u2019s ever-growing pool of literary talent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other readings scheduled in this series are:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n