Atwood News

The Princeton Book Club will meet at the Princeton Public Library at 4 p.m. Thursday to discuss “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society” by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows.

Wouldn't it be great if you could go about your daily life as a better-looking, thinner, more perfect version of yourself? That semi-you could go to work, shop for groceries and go out on the town and the real you could schlub around your house all day long, living vicariously through your surrogate.

Here's an up-front disclaimer: I'm not a fan of post-apoc. That's short for post-apocalyptic: fiction set in an era following some wholesale wipeout of the present world.

Robert Everett-Green Last updated on Saturday, Sep. 12, 2009 04:09AM EDT A decade after the announcement of her first foray into writing words for opera, Margaret Atwood is still waiting for her public debut as a librettist.