Books of Ages

Atwood, left, with Paterson in the Norwegian forest                                        Bjørvika Utviklingay

In a misty Norwegian forest last summer, a Scottish artist named Katie Paterson oversaw the birth of an ambitious 100-year project, Future Library. It began with the cutting down of trees, but fear not. Those trees will be used to build the library that will house the result of the project, and 1,000 new trees were planted in their place. For the next century, one author will submit a book manuscript each year (Margaret Atwood had the honor of being the first, to be followed, this year, by David Mitchell) that will eventually be printed on pages made from those 1,000 trees (story, video, link to audio version): http://www.pri.org/stories/2015-07-16/you-cant-read-these-books-your-great-great-grandchildren-can