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2007.10.23.

 This great organization I volunteer for, Center for New Words (centerfornewwords.org) is having an auction to raise money for our programs, that I thought some of you might be interested it. We will be auctioning off many interesting items, such as:

A signed limited edition broadside from MARGARET ATWOOD!!

If you are interested, please check out our auction at:

http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZc4newwords

Thanks!

Atwood on the election
Oh, yeah, and she's got more new books coming out.

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Edited by author 10-26-2005 10:58 AM
In Piccadilly tonight?

Margaret Atwood is set to play one of my favourite bit parts except being Atwood she's reinvented it to be the main event. No longer is Penelope hiding behind her unweaving. I hope they put her in an empire waist.

There's something very potent about the idea of the 12 hanged maids - their parts will be performed by three actresses, who all sing beautifully, and are all musicians too. They are very big Margaret Atwood fans. We rehearsed today, and I had to keep reminding them that they looked at this empty chair [where Atwood, as Penelope, will be sitting] with reverence and awe, and that they've got to think differently. "She's Penelope, she's enslaved you. You've got to find more rage and menace here."

I know just how they feel. Buy The Penelopiad here.

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Writers are not placed among us to flatter and conceal---unless they're writing book reviews of other writers...

Why flog the poets?
I thought this speech by Atwood was going to be about something completely different. Instead, it's all noble and stuff. Still worth reading, I guess.

Why are repressive governments so afraid of writers? Why do they arrest and imprison and torture and kill them, all around the world? It's for much the same thing -- for saying what everyone knows, but nobody dares voice, and for saying it well. Imposed silence is a favoured weapon of tyrants. To own up to the real history of one's country is an act of courage, because real histories are never spotless; they are also seldom popular with the authorities of the day. But true writers like Orhan Pamuk and Halldor Laxness are not placed among us to flatter and conceal.

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Margaret Atwood in award spotlight

The $5,000 pot more of an honourarium, one would suppose. Maybe she can use it for garage sale pocket change?


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Elegant elf Atwood

Profiled in a LONG piece at the Herald.


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Curious Atwood

London review of, and extract from, Margaret Atwood's Curious Pursuits. A book I can't even find listed here.


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Atwood finding Atwood

Margaret Atwood reminisces about her early days on the European youth trail.

Fleeing a personal life of Gordian complexity, and leaving behind a poetry manuscript rejected by all, and a first novel ditto, I scraped together what was left after a winter of living in a Charles Street rooming-house and writing tours-de-force of undiscovered genius while working by day at a market research company, borrowed $600 from my parents, who were understandably somewhat nervous about my choice of the literary life by then, and climbed onto a plane.

(From Maud)


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Margaret's RoboScrawl 2000: 2legit2quit

I totally forgot to link to this article from Saturday's Globe, but was reminded when I saw it linked from Tingle Alley. Margaret Atwood explains some reasoning behind her Frankenhand device which will allow authors to sign books remotely. She even takes a few jibes at early critic Neil Gaiman which he gracefully allows himself to be charmed silly by. She's good. Real good. (Actually, I like some of her reasoning here. Even if this is all a hoax, I've never thought it was a bad idea.)



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Margaret takes more heat over the Frankenhand

Readers respond to Abebooks that they don't like it no none and would rather pass their germs to authors in person.

"We quite understand the idea behind Margaret Atwood's invention because, as she says in interviews, she is an old-age pensioner [who doesn't want to face the rigours of book tours], but the intriguing thing we found is that it's not so much the signature that fans care about, it's meeting the author in person, that's the real thrill," said Richard Davies, a spokesperson for abebooks.com.



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Maybe now?

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/Art...nment/?query=atwood

I wonder when Atwwod will realise the book signing is actually not about her.

K

The Pegg-o-tron 2000 Frankenhand model with powerful delux massaging heads - coming soon to a store near you

Is Atwood's invention a real thing? A little digging by Canada's own girl-sleuth, Sarah Weinman, seems to point to yes.



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