You wrote two years ago that you were not, in every way, considered an entirely proper feminisn what did you mean by that? I never have been. What was the very first business you ran? My very first business i ran, i think, was selling blueberries for five cents of pop,. But my first real business that we actually made a profit out of was in high school. We'd wear doing company christmas parties with the puppet show. And we'd got so good out it we got an agent.
Margaret Atwood defines the Canadian sense of humor as “a bit Scottish,” and in this live conversation with Tyler, she loves to let her own comedic sensibilities shine. In addition to many other thoughts about Canada — it’s big after all — she and Tyler discuss Twitter, biotechnology, Biblical history, her families of patents, poetry, literature, movies, and feminism.
Is it coincidence that Atwood started The Handmaid’s Tale in West Berlin during 1984? Does she believe in ghosts? Is the Western commitment to free speech waning? How does she stay so productive? Why is she against picking favorites? Atwood provides insight to these questions and much more.
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