Margaret E Atwood Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Margaret E Atwood

Michael Zantovsky on Vaclav Havel and writing the biography of a close friend | Latest Episode | The Biblio File podcast hosted by Nigel Beale: https://t.co/99PdYqMYyj Timely! Havel was an exemplary leader at a time of transition from a totalitarianism.

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Sarah Polley is unbearably vulnerable in Run Towards The Danger - NOW Magazine https://t.co/iwfDqjBTGw via @nowtoronto

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Anne Michaels' compelling novel, HELD (@Bloomsbury, November) couldn’t be more timely: war+ its damages, passed through generations over a century. Through luminous moments of chance, change, + even grace, Michaels shows us our humanity– its depths and shadows.… https://t.co/73PlLzXwqx

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Gave me nightmares. It’s set in Detroit of 1977. It’s a love song to Detroit, but a rather dark love song.

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And thank you, Caroline Baum in Hobart, for THE ERRATICS by Vicki Laveau-Harvie... a searing, brilliantly-written memoir about a destructive and cunning mother; reads like a novel... brought to mind Audrey Thomas's scary, excellent SONGS MY MOTHER TAUGHT ME.

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Tired of #Covid isolation? Could be waaay worse! THE SWALLOWED MAN, Edward Carey, author of the amazing LITTLE (about Mme Tussaud). Gepetto,carver of naughty Pinocchio, keeps a haunting journal of his years inside the whale. Drawings by author. Bizarre, moving, intensely odd...

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Bioengineering + bionics run amok, plus ... #baseball! Lots of goo + guck, plus bio-engineered critters roaming around. It's fiction, mind you. I think.

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Russell Banks' new novel @knopf is eerily timely. Can what's gone wrong in the past offer keys to the future? THE MAGIC KINGDOM confronts our longings for Paradise; also the inner serpents that are to be found in all such enchanted gardens. #utopias #dystopias #cults #Shakers

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Looking forward to interviewing @jodipicoult at @WordfestTweets tomorrow at 8 pm (EST) about her newest, THE BOOK OF TWO WAYS!! Ancient Egypt! Coffin charms! (My fave! I want one!) Passion! Sand! Lots of sand! Men! Sandy men! Dead people! What's not to like?

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Gritty, sad, sly, riotous – Anne Enright’s THE WREN, THE WREN...takes the p*ss out of much, including #Irish #poets, mother+father+sister-hoods, bad+good sex +more, in gem-packed language that fizzes like a sidewalk firecracker. Must-read!