In 'The Glass Hotel,' Emily St. John Mandel Asks: How Many Chances Do We Get?

takes us through tunnels of carelessness, corruption, moral compromise, and a global financial crisis to pose the question: How many chances do we get in life?."The project was that I wanted to write about a world with no technology," she says.

"And of course, if you're gonna do that, you've got to end the modern world somehow. So I hit upon a pandemic because it's just a sort of horribly efficient way to do that. And what quickly became clear to me, as I did some research into the history of pandemics — reading about the smallpox epidemic in the 1790s, the Black Death, etc. — is that this is something that happens every now and again in human history. And that's not to minimize the terror or the awfulness of it.

You know, I'm not really comfortable writing about places where I haven't either lived or spent an enormous amount of time. I've done an enormous amount of travel for, because after the epic promotional tour, there were a lot of paid lectures here and there, but I'd travel far. So I think I was just thinking about my ideal hotel when I wrote this book. And it seems to me that the truly great hotels, there's kind of a feeling of being outside of time and space.

On one character, a prisoner, who creates an elaborate alternate universe in his head — almost like a novelist does I suppose they are. They are creating their own self-contained worlds. You know, it's that's an interesting idea to me, this idea of a counter life. So that's your counterfactual life, the life you didn't lead. For myself, I didn't study writing at any level ever. You know, I was trained as a contemporary dancer. That's what I went to school for.

The Maryland Department of Health announced the third Coronavirus death. The patient was a Montgomery County resident in her 40s who suffered from underlying medical conditions.

Maybe at some point. Right now, I am going to reread Stephen King's, 'The Stand.' Exactly the level of devastation Planet Earth could use about now. Follow up the reading with a binge on 'The Walking Dead.' Makes my day. Mother Nature at work! COVID19

Let me tell you I got one hell of a blowjob in that hotel

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