March 15th, 2006
McInerney, Atwood on Rattlebag
If I haven’t put anyone off, Jay McInerney will be interviewed on Rattlebag today at 2.45pm.
I’m about to start Margaret Atwood’s new book of essays The Tent and the Canadian writer was interviewed on the same show last week. If , like me, you missed it, you can listen to the archived audio here:
March 15th, 2006 at 12:05 pm
I caught Margaret Attwood, she was brilliant, humourous, but then I love her so I might be biased.
March 30th, 2006 at 10:06 am
There’s nobody quite like Margaret Atwood. If all the writers in the world stopped writing except her, I don’t think I’d mind all that much. And I expect she would have something amusing to say about it.
The Tent is a wonderful book to dip and dive into when you’ve got a spare 10 minutes. I generally wait for paperbacks, not because I’m scabby, but I genuinely find hardbacks too cumbersome (particularly when they fall on me) but this one is light and beautifully bound (and illustrated by Atwood herself) so is good to drink now.
I’d also recommend the recently published “The Penelopiad” from the Cannongate Myths Series. It’s an utterly absorbing retelling of the myth of Penelope and Odysseuss - from Penelope’s viewpoint…
“Spry is a word that could almost have been invented to describe Margaret Atwood, who beadily and wittily retells the events surrounding the Odyssey through the voice of Penelope. Pragmatic, clever, domestic, mournful, Penelope is a perfect Atwood heroine� The Spectator