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Fluttering Butterflies (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
I read The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood one afternoon while Littlest slept. It's only little. In this novella, Atwood would like us to see the world from Penelope's eyes. And not just during the 20 years that Odysseus was away fighting in the Trojan War and his adventures afterwards. Her upbringing, her relationship with her cousin, Helen of Troy, the early years of her marriage,...
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Quillblog (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Bookish links from around the Web: Happy (belated) birthday, Margaret Atwood. The author turned 70 yesterday Colum McCann has won the fiction prize at the National Book Awards for his novel Let the Great World Spin. Also at last night’s gala in New York, Dave Eggers picked up the Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American [...]
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The Guardian Books Blog (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
... wasn't published at all until his mid-30s, and didn't produce his masterpiece until the age of 61. Margaret Atwood is different, in this, as in so much. She was brilliant from the beginning. An award-winning poet since her early 20s, the Canadian – 70 today – was just 26 when she wrote her first novel, the feminist fable The Edible Woman (it was published four years later)....
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Silliman's Blog (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
... § Charles Bernstein talking at 80 Langston Street, 1983, on characterization § Margaret Atwood at 70 § 75 years of the Academy of American Poets “A Future for Poetry” Marie Bullock on the Academy of American Poets in 1937 A portrait of the founder § Maggie Nelson : on color (reg. req.) § The US has SPD, but Australia’s got SPUNC § SPD...
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avengingsybil (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
... which never fails to make me happy -a gorgeously overflowing TBR pile which includes the likes of Margaret Atwood, Kristen Cashore and Margo Lanagan -the tiny person-to-be who has taken over my body for the past 18 weeks and, if all continues to go well, will avenge her or his way into the world in the spring. C'est trop beau... and a Happy Everything to all of you. Written material...
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small change (Free subscription) | yesterday
The sun is about to set and I realize that I lost this day. A Monday, too, which sets the tone for the week. It's not what I planned, but so be it. Well, to be truthful, I was lost to the day as I kept on reading Margaret Atwood's The Year of the Flood . Most of last night was also lost by me to this book. Now my head is filled Atwood's gardeners, romping through the compost of...
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 20 hours ago
... rubbished the prize and its corporate sponsors. When asked about writing and sex by the LA Times, Margaret Atwood shuddered: "Nobody wants to win that prize..." As for its effectiveness in discouraging talk of writhing loins and erect nipples – well, John Banville, shortlisted this year for some sweaty action in The Infinities, told the Irish Writers Centre that, since this is his...
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Bibliobibuli (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
... quick links to stories that have caught my eye over the last week or two and hope you enjoy them : Margaret Atwood turned 70 and on The Guardian books blog Daragh McManus celebrates the work of a writer whose versatility astounds. (I am currently reading and relishing After the Flood and reckon it needs to be the second book of a trilogy.) Zadie Smith suffers from what she calls 'novel...
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Jerz's Literacy Weblog (Free subscription) | yesterday
The space that used to belong only to men grows ever smaller. However, the statistics about who is portrayed in the media as knowledgeable "talking heads," about who is credited with writing the most influential books and who gets bylines in the most respected intellectual magazines seem to change very little. In a year that saw new books by Margaret Atwood, Louise Erdrich, Alice Munro,...
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Monkeygirl (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
I am glad I am recording all the adventures I have been having, as sometimes I feel like I am boring, but then it turns out I am not! So additional adventures: 1) Some friends and I went to see Margaret Atwood in a dramatic reading of her new book, " The Year of the Flood ". I was intrigued, because I loooooove Margaret Atwood, but also mildly concerned, as I thought...
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yawn (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
just listening to the horrors. friday began reading a novel by margaret atwood called surfacing. got the book off amazon on the strength of a short essay about it by mark fisher of k-punk. ive only read 10 or so pages so far. a woman returning to the town she grew up in. it's written in a sort of cold, distanced style. i like it. have made two trips to birmingham lately: wednesday of...
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John Gushue . . . Dot Dot Dot (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
I have zero interest in seeing 2012; the trailer was quite enough, thanks. That said, I was intrigued by this list of the best works of apocalyptic fiction, which includes writers as diverse as Cormac McCarthy and Nevil Shute and Margaret Atwood (for Oryx and Crake).
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BrontëBlog (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
... isn’t really one individual book but there are certain writers whose oeuvre I really envy. Margaret Atwood is one, Hilary Mantel (this year’s Man Booker winner) is another. ‘Wolf Hall’ is a masterpiece. If I could die knowing I had written something that good, I would be happy. If I don’t get to write a sprawling masterpiece that, I would like to achieve...
