Letters to the Editor: Real-life implications of 'Handmaid's Tale' San Francisco Chronicle readers FacebookTwitterEmail This image released by Hulu shows a scene from the series, "The Handmaid's Tale." Literary agent Lynn Nesbit, author Margaret Atwood and some of the forces behind the Hulu adaptation of her novel “The Handmaid’s Tale” will be this year’s honorees at the Center for Fiction’s benefit and awards dinner. The ceremony will be held Dec. 10.George Kraychyk/Hulu via AP Regarding “ ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ turns up torture in season 4” (May 23): Carla Meyer criticizes “The Handmaid’s Tale” (the Hulu series about a misogynistic dystopia based on Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel) for its repeated depictions of violence against women and suggests that season 4 intensifies “torture porn.”