5/10/2023 0 Comments Margaret atwood the testaments![]() ![]() If I were going to give a workshop, it would be on dealing with negative criticism. ![]() So writers of my generation in Canada were making it up as we went. Luckily, I was in Canada, and Canadian writers were so bottom of the heap they were willing to become friends with anybody, even if they were female. ![]() And then people would say, as they did in my presence, “Well, of course women can’t write.” This was the mid-60s. I was talking to somebody else about this recently and said, “People like you and me went into it out of ignorance.” And she said, “Had I only known, I never would have!” It was kind of like walking across Niagara Falls blindfolded without knowing it. Ideas about writers were so thin on the ground when I decided to be one. You think, “She’s not going to go there … yes, she is.” It’s very funny, kind of horrifying and quite far outside the lines. It’s a form of Gothic satire, and she sets it at a writing school. ![]() Margaret Atwood: I’ve been an admirer of Mona’s novel “Bunny” (2019) for some time. ![]()
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