In this episode, we start out talking about Station 11, the 2014 novel by Emily St. John Mandel, and end up talking about Covid, grief, and the transition into a new phase of the pandemic. Nat and Nina are joined by novelist and friend of the show A.E. Osworth in the first half of this episode as they reflect on their year and the ways Station 11 has stuck with all of us through our own experience of a world-wide plague. Find A.E. Osworth’s new novel (!!!) We are Watching Eliza Bright, out now from Grand Central Publishing, wherever books and audiobooks are sold.
With A.E. Osworth
A.E. Osworth is Part-Time Faculty at The New School, where they teach undergraduates both fiction and the art of digital storytelling and previously served as Education Director of WriteOn. Their novel, We Are Watching Eliza Bright, about a game developer dealing with harassment (and narrated collectively by a fictional subreddit) is forthcoming from Grand Central Publishing (April 2021).
They spent seven years working for Autostraddle in varying roles, including as Contributor, Staff Writer, and Geekery Editor, where they mainly focused on the intersection of queerness and technology. They also edited cartoons and wrote about relationships and whiskey.
In addition, you can find their work on Guernica, Quartz, Electric Lit, Paper Darts, Mashable, drDoctor and Argot Magazine. You can take classes with them at Catapult, where they’re leading fiction- and literature-focused courses.
