“I was big on grit,” she says in an interview* where she describes finding old pages of writing from her childhood and teenagehood. She wrote a novel about an ant, still unfinished. And there were musings on the Hungarian Revolution and despair. “I had an eye for lawn-litter and
In a 1990 interview* MA talks about writing The Edible Woman in a chaotic Vancouver apartment: papers strewn everywhere, piles only she could decipher, and very little furniture (including a card table loaned by Jane Rule). Not how you’d imagine writers working (chair, desk), she says. It was a
Anyone can have their own MargaretAtwoodReadingMonth, really---chose a month and read—but it’s so lovely to have company. Many thanks to all who have participated and are planning to do so once more. When last November wrapped up, a few MARMers shared their favourite flip-box quotes from the seventh event.
