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...from “You Begin,” Margaret Atwood, Two-Headed Poems...
...It’s just simple,” began prize-winning Canadian author, poet and literary critic Margaret Atwood in a Nov. 19 interview with The Harvard Crimson as she explained the predominance of settings familiar to her in her novels. “If you’re going to send a character to lunch, you’d like to know where. Apparently one of the plusses for people living in Brooklyn is that every single lunch spot—hot dog stands, White Castles—in the novels…people actually eat there. Things...
...everything has remained in its place for Atwood, who studied at Radcliffe as a graduate student in the early 1960s and returned to Cambridge after a significant hiatus to deliver a speech as part of the Radcliffe Institute Dean’s Lecture Series. I asked her how it felt to be back...
After her speech, Atwood answered questions from the audience about her writing style and specific works...
...Atwood shared anecdotes from her experience as a graduate student at Radcliffe and Harvard, and as a grammar teacher at the University of British Columbia, where she wrote one of her novels “on leftover blue-lined exam notebooks...