COLUMBUS—Columbus Metropolitan Library (CML) is joining with eight other central Ohio library systems to present A Conversation with Margaret Atwood on Wednesday, June 15 at 7 p.m. at the Palace Theatre. WOSU’s Ann Fisher will moderate the conversation.
Tickets, which start at $25, go on sale at 10 a.m. on Sunday, May 1, exclusively through cbusarts.com. Tickets will not be available at participating libraries. Some COVID-19 precautions may apply. Books will be available for purchase through Gramercy Books.
This author program was initially scheduled to take place in September 2020, but the pandemic led to its postponement.
This marks the second author talk from this library partnership, which includes Bexley Public Library, Grandview Heights Public Library, London Public Library, Plain City Public Library, Southwest Public Libraries, Upper Arlington Public Library, Westerville Public Library and Worthington Libraries. In 2019, this partnership presented author and TV host Rick Steves at the Southern Theatre.
Atwood has long been a literary titan, but “current events have polished the oracular sheen of her reputation” (The New Yorker). With her 1985 novel The Handmaid’s Tale adapted into an 11-time Emmy Award-winning television series, and its sequel, The Testaments, winning the 2019 Booker Prize, Atwood’s sharp eye is more crucial – and prescient – than ever.
Her latest release, Burning Questions, is a collection of more than 50 essays that aim her prodigious intellect and impish humor at our world. From debt to tech, the climate crisis to freedom; from when to dispense advice to the young (answer: only when asked) to how to define granola, we have no better questioner of the many and varied mysteries of our human universe.
