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Emily St. John Mandel

Friday, September 18, 2026
7:30pm Pacific Time
Venue: Sydney Goldstein Theater

Fall 2026

Emily St. John Mandel’s award-winning novels invite readers to reimagine how we relate to art, freedom, and hope. With fans like Barack Obama, and the HBO adaptation of her post-apocalyptic novel Station Eleven, Mandel continues her visionary career with her new novel Exit Party, an exploration of surveillance and identity set in a future United States embroiled in a new civil war.

Emily St. John Mandel, a bestselling and beloved novelist, refuses to stay tied to a single genre. Her work experiments with literary noir, speculative fiction, post-apocolytic, and horror, always building an inventive, luminous, and challenging vision of our world. Her breakout novel Station Eleven, a moving portrayal of art and human connection across a post-apocolytic landscape was adapted into a limited series for HBO, and has been translated into 37 languages. Mandel’s novels The Glass Hotel and Sea of Tranquility were selected by Barack Obama as two of his favorite books of 2020 and 2022. This year, Mandel returns with her new novel Exit Party, diving into a future United States locked in a new civil war. It is within this painful landscape that Mandel explores freedom, surveillance, and the possibility of a better world

Daniel Handler is the author of the novels Why We Broke Up, We Are Pirates, All the Dirty Parts, and Bottle Grove, as well as the memoir And Then? And Then? What Else?. Writing as Lemony Snicket, he is the creator of A Series of Unfortunate Events, which has sold more than 60 million copies worldwide, along with All the Wrong Questions, The Dark, and Poison for Breakfast.




A limited number of tickets include a copy of Exit Party.