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...grew up amongst the scientists,” Margaret Atwood says wistfully, seated in the lobby of the Kendall Square Hotel. The Canadian novelist seems completely at home in the cement-block shadow of MIT, where she spoke last week, as well she should...
Oryx and Crake, Atwood’s newest novel, explores the dark side of cloning and other scientific endeavors, comes from a long line of lab rats—her grandfather was a doctor, her father a biologist and her nephew and brother are researchers. Atwood herself planned to follow the family tradition, before landing in her current occupation. “I was headed toward being a biologist of some kind before I got kidnapped by writing,” she says...
...Atwood is white-haired and would be almost grandmotherly if her sharp wit did not the periodically break the spell. In the past few weeks, she has traveled through Japan, San Diego and Denver to promote her new book, and the day before coming to Cambridge, she was in Salt Lake City. Atwood says she enjoys her whirlwind speaking tours, but advises that “you have to take your vitamins.” But if she’s tired, she’s not letting on. Today, fresh from a reading at MIT, she exults that...
...writers who are carefully, lovingly grafting the prose craft of the literary heap onto the sinewy, satisfying plots of the trashy one to produce hybrid novels that offer the pleasures of both. Writers like Donna Tartt and Alice Sebold, Neal Stephenson and Iain Banks, Jonathan Lethem and Margaret Atwood, writers whose work will most likely define--more than anything by brilliant mandarins like Wallace or Franzen--what will be known to later generations as the 21st century novel. The next literary wave will come not from above but from below, from the foil-covered, embossed-lettered paperbacks in the drugstore...
...Librarian I wrestled with the nomenclature and found that "Graphic Novel," although flawed and imprecise, is the best term of a bad lot. I doubt the discussion will ever end (look at how the term "Science Fiction" is still debated, and embraced or shunned, i.e. over Margaret Atwood), but I think the war is over and we are stuck with "Graphic Novel" for better or worse. So, as much as I sympathize with Art Spiegelman and his desire not to be shelved next to Marvel's books, he is just wrong. Of course some Graphic Novels have a "seriousness...