Freezing Point Book Talk

To celebrate the reissue of Freezing Point by Danish novelist Anders Bodelson, Faber US and Head Hi present a discussion with four leading magazine writers, editors, and designers on the state of magazines today: Cat Zhang (The Cut), Zach Seely (Hard Pack), Samuel Rutter (Kismet), and Oliver Munday (author of Heads of Household).

First published in 1969, Freezing Point follows Bruno, a magazine editor who is cryogenically frozen and thawed into a future where neither death nor magazines exist. Bruno’s dilemmas are strikingly contemporary: what is the role of art in a superficial society? If the “longevity movement” eliminates death, what happens to stories that depend on endings? And, most pressingly, do all magazine editors secretly just want to be writers?

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In Freezing Point, Bruno, a young magazine editor, is offered the chance to be frozen until a cure is found for his terminal cancer. Decades…