Emily St. John Mandel: Earl Grey tea with milk

Emily talks about the unstructured education of her childhood homeschooling and how that upbringing opened doors to literature, her growing confidence as an author, how she plunges into a new novel without an outline, the life-changing attention after STATION ELEVEN, the differences between writing for TV and writing a novel, and she reveals her beliefs about whether we're all living in a simulation.

Douglas Brunt is the author of the new book The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel, available for pre-order now.