Author Margaret Atwood’s Burning Questions
Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
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The Anxiety Moment
Around that time, as you're operating and writing behind the iron curtain, your long time literary agent, phoebe larmore, visited you while writing the handmaid's tale. I think she may have thought that i looked anxious or something. Oh, any time you sit down in front of a blank sheet of paper, it's a risk situation. But writing, unlike a lot of other o art, such as performance art, you get a second chance. In fact, you get as many chances as there are drafts of your book. The anxieties are having to do with, is this any good? Am i going to finish it? Is this just rubbish? Should i
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