Writers’ Desk: Future Library

Trees into books … eventually.

Because there is apparently no end to the inventive riches of Scandinavian literary culture, we now have the Future Library Project.

They are planting a forest of 1,000 pine treesin Norway north of Oslo that will be harvested a century in the future and used to print an anthology of writing. In the manner of a literary time capsule, thepieces for the anthology are being written now at the rate of one per year and held in secret until publication in 2114.

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