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I’m considering doing two or three live streams a week on my PeerTube instance where I can take on guests via audio or video who want to come in and talk about their holiday stress.

Maybe they don’t get along with their family? Maybe they’re stressing out over what to buy someone? Maybe they’re stressed out about entertaining people? Whatever they need to get off their chest.

They can be as anonymous as they want to be. It may be a good opportunity for people to vent that don’t have that opportunity.

What do you think? Worth the effort?

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Exit Party

Hardcover Edition
320 pages
Published in 2026 by Random House LLC US

Los Angeles, 2031: The first spring after the collapse of the United States, peacekeeping troops withdraw from the city, the Jacaranda trees blossom, and the curfew is finally lifted. Ari Waker and her roommate pass the gauntlet of bomb-sniffing dogs, the shanty towns, and the Red Cross tents as they walk across Silverlake to a party. The mood is ecstatic inside the apartment, people drink and dance, a woman wears a silver dress, pleated like tinfoil. And then: A shift. A bewildered twin, an uncanny doppelganger stumbles through the crowd and out into the night, and Kareem, the party’s host, vanishes into thin air.

As Ari Waker unravels the mystery of this inexplicable night, Emily St. John Mandel unfurls a story that takes us from a future America splintered by civil war to the seaside cliffs of Greece where weapons dealers hide in an elegant resort, and from the domed city of Paris to a colony on the moon. An unforgettable literary feat, Exit Party is a novel about the price of safety, the perils of the surveillance state, a requiem for a world not unlike our own, and a breathtaking story of resilience in the face of cataclysmic change.