Think of how much more intense that is when any one of your co-workers could call the FBI to bring it all crashing down. "Think about that camaraderie that just naturally arises. I found myself thinking, 'Who are these people who show up at work every morning to perpetuate a massive crime?' I found myself thinking, 'Who are these people who show up at work every morning to perpetuate a massive crime?'
There's a real sense of camaraderie that you can get in any workplace. My most recent job - the place I was working when the Madoff scandal broke - was a cancer research lab at the Rockefeller University in New York. I was an administrative assistant for a very long time, in various places. "The thing that fascinated me the most was the staff involved. It's not about Madoff - or Madoff's family or Madoff's actual staff - but the crime is the same. "I do want to be clear about this book: it's not about any real people. "My first thought was, 'What a great opportunity to learn how to write for TV.' But at the back of my mind was also, 'What a great distraction from the publication of the book!'" "What I've been doing, as a distraction, is writing for television - which potentially sounds more glib than I mean it - because I do take it seriously. I think I was trying to pretend that the pressure didn't affect me at all. So it took much longer to write this novel than any of my previous books. But of course I was aware of this kind of invisible audience looking over my shoulder in the wake of Station Eleven. Most of that time, I think I was trying to pretend that the pressure didn't affect me at all. "It took me a really long time to write The Glass Hotel. John Mandel spoke with Shelagh Rogers about writing The Glass Hotel.
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The Glass Hotel is on the shortlist for the 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize. Inspired by the Bernie Madoff financial fraud scandal, the novel is a character study of people who profit and the lives that are compromised as a result. Mandel's latest book, The Glass Hotel, weaves together several narratives that revolve around a financial collapse. The 2014 book was a finalist for a National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award and it won the 2015 Toronto Book Award. The bestselling novel Station Eleven was a game changer for Emily St. This interview originally aired on March 21, 2020.
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