June 9: The Handmaid’s Tale, Tiki Purse, & Mandy Moore


The Handmaid’s Tale

A specially commissioned, unburnable edition of Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” has been auctioned for $130,000, Sotheby’s announced Tuesday.
Proceeds will be donated to PEN America, which advocates for free expression worldwide. The 384-page book consists mainly of Cinefoil, a specially treated aluminum product, and was announced last month at PEN’s annual fundraising gala. To help promote the initiative, Atwood agreed to be filmed attempting — unsuccessfully — to incinerate a prototype with a flame thrower.

The fireproof book was a joint project by PEN, Atwood, Penguin Random House and two companies based in Toronto, where Atwood is a longtime resident: the Rethink creative agency and The Gas Company Inc., a graphic arts and bookbinding specialty studio. “The Handmaid’s Tale,” a million seller first released in 1985, is a Dystopian novel about a cruel patriarchy known as the Republic of Gilead. It has been subject to various bannings since publication.

‘Unburnable’ copy of Handmaid’s Tale auctioned for $130,000 | Mix 95.9 (mix959.com)

Tiki Bar Purse

I do not need this..I do not need this…but it is on Afterpay.

KITSCH TIKI BAR CROSSBODY LEOPARD – Betsey Johnson

 

Mandy Moore

Saturday, June 11, 2022, 8 – 9pm

Charleston Music Hall, 37 John Street, Charleston, SC

MANDY MOORE
In Real Life Tour
SAT . JUN 11 , 2022
DOORS: 7:00PM / SHOW: 8:00PM
$45 – $75

 

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