Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing

Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing

What is the role of the writer? Prophet? High Priest of Art? Court Jester? Or witness to the real world? Looking back on her childhood and the development of her writing career, Margaret Atwood examin…

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