Akje Majdanek

I just pre-ordered Emily St. John Mandel's upcoming novel, Sea of Tranquility, due in April. Like the rest of us, she apparently spent 2020 writing a book about a pandemic.

Quoted from her Instagram: Sea of Tranquility is about time travel, pandemics, work, long book tours, family, and the simulation hypothesis. A friend told me to stop referring to the book as “deranged,” but look, I wrote it in 2020.

I love the cover art for the U.S. version, and have to wonder again why the UK gets such an ugly cover. Why do they bother using different covers for different countries anyhow? This makes no sense. It seems like an added expense for no purpose. The book publishing world is seriously insane.

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My great aunt died from covid-19 last night. She was the matriarch of our family, and it's like the end of an era. (╥︣﹏᷅╥)

A scene I imagine is happening everywhere: we've been in quarantine so long my dad forgot to put on shoes when we got takeout from Longhorn's last night. He didn't realize he was still in slippers until we arrived. ／(^ᆺ^=)＼