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    Year in Reading: Emily St. John Mandel

    by Emily St. John Mandel Dec 23, 2018 6 minutes

    Twelve notes for a Year in Reading essay:

    1.     Do you have holiday traditions? Here’s one of mine: every December, I log into The Millions staff portal to upload my Year in Reading piece, and am somehow always astonished to discover that I haven’t written anything for The Millions since my last Year in Reading piece, a year earlier.

        Does anyone who isn’t independently wealthy have enough time to do everything they’d like to do? I suspect not. My affection for hasn’t dimmed since I started writing for the site nearly a decade ago, but I have an almost-three-year-old, who takes up all of the time that I don’t spend working on my new novel or chasing lecture fees to the far corners of the country. Time can be found here and there in the margins sometimes—hello from the Dallas airport!—but I do not believe that I can have it all. There are always improvements to be

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