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17.05.2021 / 00:43

Science fiction for the pandemic times that we inhabit

NineteenEighty-Four, Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451—one reaches the hallucinatory creations of Philip K. Dick, best known as the author of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? on which the classic cult film Blade Runner is based (the Amazon Prime show Electric Dreams is an anthology of Dick’s short stories).

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Margaret Atwood, Josh Grisham Among Contributors To Pandemic Novel

One of the first novels about the pandemic will be a collaborative effort, with Margaret Atwood, John Grisham and Celeste Ng among the writers.

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Atwood, Grisham among contributors to pandemic novel

NEW YORK – One of the first novels about the pandemic will be a collaborative effort, with Margaret Atwood, John Grisham and Celeste Ng among the writers.

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Q&A: Isabel Allende on feminism, TV series, love in pandemic

NEW YORK – Isabel Allende is not only the world’s most widely read Spanish-language author but also a self-declared and outspoken feminist. So it is not surprising that her most recent book, “The Soul of a Woman,” arrived in the United States during Women’s History Month, just days before the premiere of a miniseries about her life on HBO Max.

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As 'Handmaid's Tale' returns, creator sees no end in sight

LOS ANGELES – As “The Handmaid’s Tale” returns in April for season four, its creator is reluctant to predict when the dystopian drama will be ready for its final act.

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Event organizer drops BookExpo, annual publishing convention

NEW YORK – The annual publishing convention and trade show known as BookExpo, a decades-old tradition where guest speakers have ranged from Bill Clinton to Margaret Atwood, may be coming to an end. ReedPop, which has managed BookExpo for a quarter century, announced Tuesday that effectively immediately it was “retiring” the event, along with the fan-based BookCon and merchandise-based UnBound.

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Alexie, Pilkey books among most 'challenged' of past decade

NEW YORK – Toni Morrison is on the list. So are John Green and Harper Lee.

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Margaret Atwood: 'The chilling parallels between The Handmaid’s Tale and our post-pandemic world'

The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments, as one does. The annotated versions are for an online auction in aid of English PEN, a writers’ organisation that works on behalf of fellow scribes who’ve been jailed for writing books that authoritarian regimes have not liked.Authoritarians attempting to take power have eerily similar playbooks.

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Margaret Atwood honored with Dayton Literary Peace Prize

CINCINNATI – Margaret Atwood, whose sweeping body of work includes “The Handmaid’s Tale,” a depiction of a nightmarish totalitarian future for the United States, is this year’s winner of a lifetime achievement award that celebrates literature’s power to foster peace, social justice and global understanding.The Canadian writer and teacher has earned the Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award, officials of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize officials announced Monday.

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Writers warn in open letter against threat to free speech

LONDON – Dozens of artists, writers and academics have signed an open letter decrying the weakening of public debate and warning that the free exchange of information and ideas is in jeopardy amid a rise in what they call “illiberalism.”J.K. Rowling, Salman Rushdie and Margaret Atwood are among dozens of writers, artists and academics to argue against ideological conformity in an open letter in Harper’s Magazine.

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Elisabeth Moss's new drama picked up as Handmaid's Tale delayed

Elisabeth Moss is going to be one of Hollywood's busiest actors once production ramps back up following the coronavirus quarantine.The season four premiere date of her hit The Handmaid's Tale has been officially set for sometime in 2021 which Hulu announced during its digital newfront on Monday, according to The Wrap.Additionally, STK Entertainment just secured the distribution rights to her upcoming paranormal thriller, Run Rabbit Run.

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Martin Scorsese on lockdown: 'Time takes on another aspect'

You can’t keep a good man locked down. That’s the takeaway from Martin Scorsese’s new short film, a five-minute video shot by the director from his New York home.Scorsese submitted the film to the BBC’s Lockdown Culture with Mary Beard, which has previously featured Margaret Atwood, Helen Mirren and other celebrities in its COVID-19-themed arts coverage.It opens with a clip of Henry Fonda in jail in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Wrong Man, the camera panning away from the screen to Scorsese raising the blinds, as though he’s in the same cell.

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Top e-books and audiobooks borrowed in Renfrewshire during lockdown revealed

Since the Covid-19 lockdown was announced last month, reading has been one of the most popular activities Buddies have turned to to keep themselves entertained.

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Celine Dion, Shania Twain, Michael Buble and More Team for TV Special Fighting COVID-19

After the One World: Together at Home U.S. broadcast event this weekend, Canadian artists like Celine Dion, Michael Buble and Alessia Cara will team up April 26 for their own star-studded broadcast event in Canada to support local food banks and hospital workers battling the novel coronavirus.

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`Handmaid's Tale,' Harry Potter on challenged books list

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Margaret Atwood Helps Support Canadian Writers Impacted By COVID-19

Internationally renowned Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood will take part in an online literary conversation with Canada’s former Governor General Adrienne Clarkson on Thursday, April 2, 2020, at 3 p.m. ET on the National Arts Centre’s Facebook page.

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