Margaret Atwood ponders aging, fantasy and George Orwell in 'Old Babes in the Wood'
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You Shouldn't Use the Word Leg
The Handmaid's Tale is about the generational shifts and things you can and can't say anymore. The conversation came from a magazine called Ink,. I N K U E, which has a series called The Dead Interview. You get invited to do the dead interview with any dead writer of your choice. Why did you choose George Orwell? He ruined my life when I was about nine or ten because I read Animal Farm thinking it was going to be like the wind and the willows.
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