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Margaret Atwood Is Omnipresent
Margaret Atwood has been coming up quite a bit for me, lately. There was this peripheral mention of Bodily Harm – which brought up a flood of memories from when I first read that unbelievable book – a book that … Continue reading
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
Jessa Crispin has an interesting interview with Peter Boxall, editor of 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. I loved what Boxall said at the end: Having benefited from an extraordinary number of emails and letters as well as … Continue reading
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Margaret Atwood on The Wizard of Oz
Excerpt from Margaret Atwood’s book Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing. This is the section on The Wizard of Oz. Nothing new here, nothing revolutionary, but definitely interesting to contemplate and discuss. I assume we all remember the … Continue reading
Margaret Atwood: Writer as Illusionist
I’m reading Margaret Atwood’s book Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing. This book began when she was requested to give the Empson Lectures at the University of Cambridge (I think it was a series of six lectures). She … Continue reading
“Two Old Women Giggling”
Last night, I traveled down to Princeton to see my beautiful friend Kate, as Eliza Doolittle, in My Fair Lady. She was absolutely magnificent. I met Kate when she and I were in a production of James Agee’s Death in … Continue reading
To Be a Fan
I am a grown woman, I have had my share of heartache, stress, I take responsibility for my own life, I am an adult, but all of this does not stop me from behaving, at times, like a shrieking Beatle-maniac … Continue reading
