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Margaret Atwood Biography Flash: Literary Icon Torches Book Ban Critics at 86 with Flamethrower Stunt

Margaret Atwood Biography Flash: Literary Icon Torches Book Ban Critics at 86 with Flamethrower Stunt

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In the past few days, Margaret Atwood, the 86yearold literary powerhouse, has dominated headlines with her fiery defense against book banners. On February 8, CBSs 60 Minutes aired The Indomitable Margaret Atwood, where correspondent Cecilia Vega profiled her in Toronto, spotlighting her new memoir Book of Livespublished last Novemberthat peels back her freewheeling childhood, blended family dramas, and prescient warnings on totalitarianism and womens rights. According to the 60 Minutes transcript, Atwood torched an unburnable edition of her book with a flamethrower to mock censors, auctioning it for free speech charity PEN America, as her works like The Handmaids Tale face bans in 135 US school districts for so-called sexual or antiChristian content. CBS News video from that day confirms she quipped about indirect sex bans with deadpan wit, reinforcing her Cassandra status amid Roe v Wades fallout.

No major headlines in the last 24 hours, but Sequim Gazette letters to the editor on February 11 nod to her cultural ripple. Businesswise, her site margaretatwood.ca teases spring 2026 launches: a cameo in The Testaments TV seriesfilmed in a Toronto holding celland Wayne McGregors MaddAddam ballet return in June. Recent public appearances include a soldout January 27 talk at Cambridge First Parish Church via Harvard Book Store, a January 26 Detroit Opera House chat on her memoir, and an April 23 Grunin Center event in Toms River, New Jersey. Social media buzz from her two millionplus Twitter followers echoes the 60 Minutes promo, with no fresh posts noted.

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