Hints and tips:
...I think if you’re having a collaborative novel and the idea is those kind of contrasts and diversions, then I think I’d want to feel that more....
...You'd almost think these folks want to destroy their own country. What is the antidote?...
...Later, in a story by Atwood, a young woman tells the neighbours that she used to be a spider....
...As for Purcell’s music, the Pomo d’Oro showed its brilliant variety of mood, rhythm, colour and melody....
...In “Morte de Smudgie”, for instance, Nell looks back on the time when she was moved to rewrite Tennyson’s “Morte d’Arthur” to memorialise her dead cat, an absurdly lavish expression of grief that even then...
...As a parent of two children who have gone through the system in New York City, I’d wholeheartedly agree with this....
...Toni Morrison and Margaret Atwood are writers I have always worshipped from a respectful distance. How fit are you?Ha ha ha ha! No, listen, I’m trying....
...I’d be standing in my little sailor’s outfit on a cheese box, made to look like a drum doing ‘Anchors Aweigh’,” she says in a Canadian drawl of what first ignited her life-long love of theatre and ballet...
...Instead I’d spent more than a year investigating one of the few that hadn’t,” he writes ruefully....
...The bar has since undergone a renovation, but its raison d'être remains very much the same....
...I once saw her tweet to help Margaret Atwood remember the name of a book that was escaping her. Later that night, she will tweet about the peculiarity of interviews....
...And we talked about this myself and Richard Atwood, our executive vice-president....
...When I ask Ted Chiang if he will sit down with me over lunch, his response — like the stories he writes — is succinct and precise: “I’d be happy to talk about the current moment in AI and how science fiction...
...“You look at this and how could you not but think that Margaret Atwood was a prophet? She’s not just a brilliant writer, she was a prophet.”...
...And as I was studying, I’d often walk out of my office and ask my British colleagues the questions and I’d say 50-50 whether they could actually know the answers....
...Old Babes in the Wood by Margaret Atwood (Chatto & Windus/Doubleday)Atwood’s new short-story collection — which features George Orwell, an alien and a confused snail — promises to “explore the full warp...
...He’d commissioned an analysis of existing studies, almost half of which originated from the US....
...As the canapés circulate, the former US Treasury secretary Larry Summers arrives, deep in conversation with the novelist and human rights campaigner Margaret Atwood....
...One Kansas school district just removed 29 books from its libraries, by authors including Margaret Atwood and Toni Morrison....
...For fans (including me) of Margaret Atwood, it would tear a leaf from the pages of The Handmaid’s Tale....
...It is hard to believe that, for all her self-delusion, Beverley (who claims to be a friend of Margaret Atwood) would blithely assert that “Leonardo da Vinci’s work is probably a lot better than mine.”...
...But don’t be put off by the escalator climb: you’d come to Open House for the soaring, light-suffused, wall-less space alone....
...“And yet, I’d never seen a version work....
...Once I’d read the book, I could see there was a case for making it. Brilliant as the film is, it was made at a different time and there’s a lot in the book that still feels fresh.”...
...On BBC radio (above) before the second world war, what was the usual word for what we’d now call a quiz? Who is the current makar — or poet laureate — of Scotland?...
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