From the New York Review of Books “blog” comes “Atwood in the Twittersphere,” which is by the fantastic writer Margaret Atwood and about her experiences with developing web sites and participating in Twitter. I think this is interesting for a couple of reasons. First, I’ve always admired Atwood’s fearlessness when it comes to new technologies, which she really doesn’t have to engage in if she doesn’t want to. Second, it just goes to show you that if you are hoping to be “a writer” in the world nowadays, you’d best engage in the ways that people read, and that includes “the Intertubes” and things like Twitter. Books aren’t dead, but print alone probably is.
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Hmm…. never read anthing from her but have heard that she’s quite good. she sound’s very witty. Any suggestions so I can add it to my laptop’s sticky note list of “books to check out,” that grows way faster than I can possibly read ‘em?
Well, there’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Cat’s Eye, which are older books. My wife is a big fan of Oryx and Crake, though I could never really get into it. But I’ll bet she’s written 20 books, maybe more, not to mention poetry and essays and short fiction.
Fun article, I enjoy her sense of wit and creativity and the way she doesn’t undermine Twitter and its followers even though she is the one and only Margaret Atwood.
She is amazing and love her humor. She is trying out the gadgets and not confined by her age.