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Margaret Atwood has spent the past few days doing what she does best: turning her own life story into public conversation, while still wading straight into the cultural battles that made The Handmaids Tale a shorthand for modern dystopia. In Edmonton last night, she took the stage at the Edmonton Convention Centre for a special Audreys Books event, billed as one final stop on her Book of Lives tour, closing the stores 50th anniversary year in suitably literary style. According to the event listing from Audreys Books and the Edmonton Downtown Business Association, ticket bundles included her new autobiography Book of Lives and helped raise funds for the Edmonton Public Library, part of Atwoods ongoing, very deliberate support for libraries and institutions resisting book bans. That detail matters biographically: at 80 plus, she is not just promoting a memoir, she is tying her life story to a campaign against censorship that echoes the warnings of The Handmaids Tale.
On the page and online, those warnings have been especially sharp in Alberta. The Hollywood Reporter notes that Atwood recently published a satirical short story aimed at a controversial school library ban on books with so called explicit sexual content, including LGBTQ plus titles, and that she publicly flagged on X that The Handmaids Tale itself had been swept onto that list. Her mocking line, Sorry, kids; your Minister of Education thinks you are stupid babies, and her absurdly sanitized characters John and Mary, are not just jokes; they are strategic, quotable jabs that will likely be referenced in future biographies as part of her late career role as a free expression combatant in Canadian politics.
Internationally, her broader diagnosis of the moment has been equally stark. The Independent recently reported that Atwood now fears the dystopian scenario of The Handmaids Tale can happen anywhere, a shift from speculative warning to near real time commentary. Pop culture site Popverse, picking up on an interview originally run in The Guardian, highlights her view that the realistic feminist goal right now is not toppling the patriarchy but simply holding the line on jobs, money, and political rights for women. Those remarks, widely shared on social media, suggest a hardening, more pessimistic edge to her public persona that future chroniclers of her life will not ignore.
Looking ahead a few days, the official TO Live listing in Toronto notes an upcoming onstage conversation with Atwood tied to Book of Lives, while the Vancouver Writers Fest promotes a recent Orpheum Theatre event where she described the autobiography as a must read account of her creative life. Seattle public radio station KUOW, through its book club coverage of her memoir, underlines how much of Atwoods current media presence is anchored in that life story, from finding early source material to the love and losses that shaped her imagination.
There are no credible reports in the past 24 hours of new business ventures or surprise TV deals; any such rumors circulating on fan accounts remain unconfirmed and should be treated as speculation for now. What is verified is that in interviews, live events, and pointed social media posts, Margaret Atwood is weaving her biography and her politics into a single late career narrative: the celebrated novelist turned global warning system, insisting that what she once imagined is now a manual for what to resist.
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