Margaret Atwood - interview
In an interview with Tom Rice, the great Canadian writer Margaret Atwood talks about her poetry and fiction following sell-out events at the 2007 Book Festival. Here she describes her ingenious invention the LongPen: technology that allows authors to sign books on one side of the world, when they are on the other. Norman Mailer and Alice Munro were two such authors who did exactly that at the Book Festival in Edinburgh in 2007.
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