Biography Flash: Margaret Atwood Unveils Memoir While Warning Her Dystopian Fiction Is Becoming Reality
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Biography Flash: Margaret Atwood Unveils Memoir While Warning Her Dystopian Fiction Is Becoming Reality
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Margaret Atwood has stepped into the spotlight again this week, not with dystopian fiction, but with her own life story. Her long awaited memoir Book of Lives has just been released, and Atwood has been everywhere explaining why, at this late stage in a towering career, she finally agreed to turn the lens on herself. On NPRs Book of the Day, she joked that a memoir is really a catalogue of stupid things you did, near death experiences, catastrophes and jokes, and described sweating blood over compressing eight and a half decades into one book. NPR and CBC both highlight that she dug into old, unpublished writings and even started having strange dreams and conversations with the dead as she wrote, a detail that will almost certainly become part of her long term biographical lore.
The other big headline in the past day comes via the BBC and was picked up by RTE, where Atwood used a Desert Island Discs appearance to warn that the world of The Handmaids Tale is becoming more and more plausible. She told the programme that what once seemed bonkers now feels chillingly close, especially in the wake of political polarization and attacks on reproductive rights. That line is getting wide pickup and adds fresh weight to her decades long reputation as the so called prophet of doom.
On the public stage, Book of Lives is driving a mini tour that also says a lot about her priorities right now. Vancouver is getting Margaret Atwood in Conversation at the Orpheum on December 9, in partnership with the Vancouver Writers Fest, where organizers promise a career spanning discussion of how her life has shaped her art, and even tease a special musical element, according to Vancouver Is Awesome and Vancouver Civic Theatres. In Calgary, Wordfest bills her December 10 appearance as the grand finale of their 30th anniversary year, again centered on the memoir. Then on December 13 she heads to the Edmonton Convention Centre for an event presented by Audreys Books, closing the stores 50th anniversary year and explicitly supporting libraries resisting book bans, with a portion of ticket sales going to the Edmonton Public Library, as noted by the venue and local organizers. Toronto will have its own In Conversation with Margaret Atwood at the Jane Mallett Theatre on December 17, listed by TO Live and ticket platforms, extending her cross country visibility.
Taken together, the verified picture of the last few days is of an 86 year old literary icon using a new memoir, a high profile 60 Minutes teaser from CBS, and a run of live events to lock in her legacy, defend embattled libraries, and remind audiences that the nightmare world she imagined 40 years ago is, in her words, a perennial possibility. There are no credible reports of major new business ventures or personal scandals in this window; any online gossip about film deals or secret projects remains purely speculative and unconfirmed by reputable outlets.
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