"Tesch seems to be someone who mistakes rudeness for intellectual rigor."
About Emily St. John Mandel
Emily St. John Mandel (; née Fairbanks; born 1979 is a Canadian novelist and essayist. She has written seven novels, including Station Eleven, The Glass Hotel, Sea of Tranquility, and Exit Party. Station Eleven, which has been translated into 33 languages, has been adapted into a limited series on HBO Max. The Glass Hotel was translated into twenty languages and was selected by Barack Obama as one of his favorite books of 2020. Sea of Tranquility was published in April 2022 and debuted at number three on The New York Times Best Seller list.
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