Culture Talk

Quick summary: Laurie Anderson and the 2114 Future Library

For those who scrolled past: the Future Library in Oslo collects one secret manuscript a year and nobody reads them until 2114. Then they'll be printed on paper from 1,000 spruce trees Katie Paterson planted in 2014. Laurie Anderson is the 13th writer, after people like Margaret Atwood, Han Kang and Ocean Vuong.

The texts sit in a silent room in the Deichman Bjørvika library. Anderson said she wants to write 'something useful about love' for the readers in 2114.

So, a very long waitlist. Longest library hold in history. The usual.