Events

[LITERATURE] Now more than ever, thanks to the Hulu TV series based on the novel, Margaret Atwood is best known for The Handmaid’s Tale, which was a finalist for the 1986 Booker Prize. But her first novel, The Edible Woman, came out in 1969, and she won the Booker Prize in 2000 for The Blind Assassin, and two novels in between—1988’s Cat’s Eye and 1996’s Alias Grace—were also Booker finalists. She has published 20 volumes of poetry, 10 books of nonfiction, and a graphic novel; she has written television scripts, opera, and reams of short stories. Even without her impressive bibliography and mantle full of awards earned thereby, her career as an environmental and politcal activist would make for talk at UB Center for the Arts on Friday, March 9, an event not to be missed. VIP tickets, which include a pre-talk reception with Atwood  and general admission tickets can be purchased online; student tickets must be purchased at the UBCFA box office. This is the first in the UB Humanities Institute’s annual series of events, Humanities to the Rescue, which also includes a screening of environental documentaries on Saturday, March 10, 3-9:30pm, at the UBCFA screening room, curated by UB professor Adam Rome.