Katie Drummond

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Uncanny Valley | WIRED · If the US Collapses Soon, Don’t Blame Emily St. John Mandel · 15 Sep 2026 podcast

I recently chatted with McKinsey's Dan Swann about how businesses successfully transition to AI, the coming agentic wave, and even the sad loss of tennis line judges. matched

Here's a sneak peek. matched

There's much more in the full interview with Dan Swan, which can be found in its entirety on Wired dot com. matched

Also, check out McKinsey's playbook, Rewired, available at your favorite bookseller. matched

From Wired, this is the big interview. matched

I'm Katie Drummond, Wired's Global Editorial Director. matched

My guest today is bestselling author Emily St. matched

John Mendel. matched

She wrote The Glass Hotel, Sea of Tranquility, and Station 11, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and later adapted into a series on HBO. matched

Emily writes fiction, but what that often looks like is, and I'm sorry to do this, stranger than fiction. matched

Her novels move across time and matched

Between interconnected lives, slipping in and out of pandemics, ghost stories, alternate realities, time travel, and the occasional collapse of civilization. matched

But the world she creates never feel entirely foreign. matched

They're strange and speculative, yes, but also eerily familiar. matched

The kinds of places, if you squint just a little bit, you might mistake for home. matched

Emily has a new book called Exit Party. matched

It opens in the first spring after the collapse of the United States in the year 2031, with two roommates on their way to a house party in Southern California. matched

Here's a bit from the book's first chapter. matched

The wealthiest Americans had fled overseas or to Mexico or Canada, but that population had been replaced several times over by refugees fleeing more violent places in the interior of the former nation. matched

A soft rain was starting to fall. matched

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