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(y)Margaret Atwood Announces Unburnable Edition of The Handmaid’s Tale ​

https://consequence.net/2022/05/margaret-atwood-handmaids-tale-unburnable-edition/amp/

Up for auction through June 7th, all proceeds go to PEN America's work in support of free expression.

Unfortunately, much of the dystopian future Margaret Atwood imagined in The Handmaid’s Tale has been reflected in our current reality. In spite of its merits, the novel has often been at the center of growing book bans, and Atwood has responded with an unburnable edition announced with a kickass video of the author using a flamethrower. Watch the announcement below.


Published through Penguin Random House, the one-off run will be auctioned through Sotheby’s New York through June 7th, with all proceeds going to the nonprofit organization PEN America, which works to defend free expression across the US and worldwide.


The concept for the fireproof edition was created by Robbie Percy and Caroline Friesen at the Rethink creative agency, who came up with the idea when they heard about hundreds of books being potentially banned from Texas school libraries.


To bring the idea to life, Toronto graphic arts and bookbinding specialty studio The Gas Company Inc. used a specially treated aluminum product called Cinefoil and then sewed the manuscript together with nickel copper wire. Gas Company owner Doug Laxdal told AP that the book could only be destroyed with a shredder — perhaps the next edition of The Handmaid’s Tale can tackle that issue?


Place a bid for an unburnable copy of The Handmaid’s Tale here.


Of course, The Handmaid’s Tale remains as topical as ever, with the US Supreme Court expected to overturn Roe v. Wade later this year. Hulu’s Elisabeth Moss-starring adaptation was renewed for a fifth season in December 2020, and Atwood’s 2019 sequel, The Testaments, is also headed for the streamer.
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The new issue of Vanity Fair arrived yesterday.
I’ll take a book on trips for the airplane bits, usually something Elmore Leonard-esque.
 
I have been reading arcs to review. I have become a not-really-important arc reader :)
 
The High House by Jessie Greengrass.

This is a good but depressing read. Set some time in the scarily it seems, near future when global warming has done it's stuff. Set in a flooded out East Anglia the story centres around three people trying to eke out an existence in the High House.
 
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"Controversy and Conciliation: The Reformation and the Palatinate 1559-1583" - ed. D. Vissser. Needless to say, work related, as I am working over the course I teach on the Reformation. I've also got Don Allchin's book on Grundtvig on the go, which is ammunition for the next argument I get into about 'who was the most significant Danish thinker of the 19th century?' Most folks say Soren Kierkegaard, but that is, I think, a later, i.e., mid-20th century perspective.
 
  • The Veiled Throne by Ken Liu
  • Come as You Are by Emily Nagoski
  • Without Bloodshed by Matthew Graybosch
Ken Liu's "Dandelion Dynasty" novels are inspired by classic Chinese literature and Polynesian culture, but they read like incredibly polished Suikoden fan fiction.

I've been reading Nagoski to better understand my wife's needs so that I can be a better, more patient husband for her.

Graybosch's novel is still on Amazon, but his publisher is a defunct small press that didn't take down the listing or transfer it to him and he doesn't get paid if somebody buys a copy, so he's made it available as a text file from his website. I think he overdosed on Final Fantasy, listened to way too many Blue Öyster Cult, Judas Priest, and Queensrÿche albums, and watched too much 80s anime but it's a fun romp if you can get past the fact that he's got at least twenty different viewpoint characters in what Amazon claims is a 320 page novel.
 
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The last book I read was Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett. It's my first foray into the Discworld series. I gave it 4 out of 5 stars. It was a fun read.
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The witches and City Watch stuff is his best work. Laugh out loud social commentary.
 
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