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  1. Future Library project

    So to be a part of Future Library, a project that so courageously hopes for and is built towards a human future nearly a century ahead of us, feels like the daring and exhilarating optimism that is required of …

  2. We are commissioning a new, original piece for Future Library by each of the 100 authors. They are being selected for their outstanding contributions to literature or poetry and for their work's ability to …

  3. “Everything is telling us that we’re doomed, but the Future Library is a candidate on the ballot paper for possible futures. It brings hope that we are more resilient than we think: that we will be here, that …

  4. wait an entire year, perhaps two, for a book to be published. But Margaret Atwood won't be alive when her newest project arrives in bookstores - us art project that is part Noah's Ark and part time capsule. …

  5. Someone could be writing a literary heist story, in which demented book nerds attempt a library break-in, sometime over the next 100 years, to read the words of their idols.

  6. I'm not reading a word. LIMBONG: That's Katie Paterson, the artist behind the project. In 2114, the trees they've set aside will be chopped down and turned into one big anthology. First up is Margaret …

  7. The Future Library isn't just a vault where pieces of literature will remain for a century. It involves 1,000 trees that have been planted in the forest of Nordmarka, north of the Norwegian city of Oslo.

  8. But Future Library is perhaps her most ambitious exploration of the dimension yet. Every year for 100 years, beginning in 2014, one author will contribute a story that will be held under lock and key in a …

  9. Their last collaboration was on her Biophilia album (2011), but he doesn’t rule out more work in future: ‘Obviously it’s easy for us to work together because we’ve known each other since we were …

  10. Six months after that, the Future Library in Oslo, Norway, will open its doors for the first time, presenting 100 books printed on the wood of trees planted in the distant past of 2014.