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Ocean Vuong joins Margaret Atwood, David Mitchell and Karl Ove Knausgård to lock away work in the Future Library to be published in ninety-four years time
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- Title
- 'You'll have to die to get these texts': Ocean Vuong's next manuscript to be unveiled in 2114
- Authors
- Sian Cain
- Published
- Aug 19 2020
- Word count
- 817 words
It's possible to be 100 years before-your-time woke, so no guarantee that future readers will cringe at these works.
But if I were to guess (partly just from my hopes of the future) our largest societal blindspot is our judgment of people that misbehave. We like to act as though someone that murders or robs or hoards wealth is fundamentally broken, when a better society could have built them better to begin with.
Ah, that David Mitchell. Not that David Mitchell.
I was confused. I clearly don't read enough :)
David Mitchell (the comedian) has some amusing anecdotes in his autobiography about being mistaken for the novellist.
Is his autobiography a good/fun read? I like the character but I never read autobiographies, they just seem… uh… Masturbatory, I want to say?
I listened to it on YouTube a few years ago while I revised for my A-Levels. I enjoyed it, and I didn't find it particularly self-indulgent, although I imagine others might think differently.
Geez I wonder if I’ll make it to 120 years old. It almost seems possible.