Eliana Dockterman, Margaret Atwood and Lauren Groff speak onstage during the 2024 TIME100 Summit at Jazz at Lincoln Center on April 24, 2024 in New York City
and Lauren Groff agree: it can be more effective to write truthfully about the contemporary world by situating stories in the past or in the future.in New York City. Atwood, who has written dozens of books spanning fiction, essays and poetry, based her setting forBoth works deal with issues facing women, greater culture and the environment today: As Dockterman put it, they are “stories about women in moments of survival.
Atwood noted that the challenge of writing a contemporary story is a general writers’ problem. “Present times are moving so quickly that it’s hard to get a point of fixation,” she said. “As soon as you write about something in the present day, it’s all changed.”have been pictured filling legislative chambers and protest lines wearing long red robes and white bonnetts.“Talk about a Puritan theocracy,” Groff said with a nod to Atwood: “That’s what Florida is right now.
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