margaret atwood, author of numerous books including the award winning novel, the handmaid s tale. she has come back a couple o times on the velshi banned boo club still ahead of this year s yea and meeting of the velsh banned book club, work sufficient, bands or otherwise have the power to conquer your deepest fears, including thing you never once examined. even changes steadfast opinion had jody buckle, the bes selling contemporary author of 27 novels, including a book we featured on this program called 19 minutes. i think fiction is a really important tool a lot of people tune out to th news i can t tell you how man people i have talked to in the past week who said oh, i can t handle all the stuff about the shootings. i m not watching the news this week fiction is supposed to be an escape, but if you write about topics like i choose to, wha you do is give readers investe in a story and in th characters, and by the tim that the last page is turned you force them to confront a
american knows about, at least by name. it grapples with these becomin more and more relevant every single day, including th degradation of women s reproductive rights, the ris of autocratic regimes, the flagrant disregard for environmental issues, and it does so by utilizing it in a in perspective, non linear plots, as well as nuance characters my conversation with margare atwood went to the end of th show, and it was so good w kept going off the air we recorded deeper and mor wide-ranging interview exclusively for nbc s streamin platform, peacock. some of which i would like t share with you now here s what that would have to say when i asked her why she was more worried on that day i may then when she first wrot the handmaid s tale in the mid 1980 you know the answer to that it s because something that wa a nascent movement in the 80 has now become prett full-fledged and people have seen raising
television station and the radio station, as one of their very first acts. that s, of course, would hav happened the difference between january six and what happens in th handmaid s tale is what happen in the handmaid s tale was better organized yes same idea i think they came within a whisker of having martial la declare. we now fro - we now know from messages that have been revealed that that was in the minds of some of th insiders who were hoping for a coup i find all of that prett scary. at one of your other works, a few years before you published the handmaid s tale, you published something called second words, in which h writes, i began as a profoundl a political writer, but then i began to do what all novelis and so poets do, i began t
for her novel of crowns and legends, but she was very disappointed that only two people came. she took to twitter and was shocked at the response. several well known writers shared their experience. author of the handmaid s tale, margaret atwood, said: join the club. i did a signing to which nobody came, except a guy who wanted to buy some scotch tape and thought i was the help. bestselling writer neil gaimun confessed: terry pratchett and i did a signing in manhattan for good omens that nobody came to at all. so you are two up on us. and jodie picault said: i have sat lonely at a signing table many times only to have someone approach and ask me where the bathroom is. picoult. well, chelsea banning joins us now from warren in ohio. chelsea, thank you so much for joining us on bbc news. i have to ask, when you put this tweet out. did you expect the kind
is proud and is celebrating. what an atmosphere. lots of happy faces. in other news now. first time author chelsea banning held a book signing for her novel of crowns and legends, but she was very disappointed that only two people came. she took to twitter and was shocked at the response. author of the handmaid s tale margaret atwood said, join the club. i did a signing to which nobody came except a guy who wanted to buy some scotch tape and thought i was the help. well, chelsea banning joins us now from warren in ohio. thank you so much forjoining us. let s start from the very beginning, shall we? what happens when you went to the