Margaret Atwood is a Hemispheric Treasure

[sirreal13]

About 700-800 women and 200-300 men (just a wild guess) listened to Canadian novelist and poet Margaret Atwood last night at Varsity Hall at UW-Madison's "new" Union South. She was here to talk about "Hag-Seed," her recreation and transformation of Shakespere's most magical and technical play, "The Tempest" into a novel set in Steven Harper's

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[sunshine_two]

I like her.

Nice

[likethebeer]

It's cool that you got to see her.

RE: Nice

[sirreal13]

We actually exchanged two lines of dialog. She was quite a good sport signing all those books and letting people take pics. Makes me proud to pretend to be Canadian when we have a Repugnican as POTUS.