that interview was like a syllabus to me. It's where I learned about Colette's Earthly Paradise (indeed, I am certain it's where I first heard about Colette), Virginia Woolf's Writer's Diary, the poems of Pablo Neruda and Denise Levertov, the biography of Theodore Roethke, and more.
Aw, that's lovely. You can tell she was a real intellectual, even in the novels. It came out now in her poetry I think. Fame was terrible for her. I don't think Atwood hit that level of international fame until Handmaid's Take and by then she'd been writing for at least twenty years.
Did you ever read her thinly disguised portrait of Anne Sexton ("Jeannie Morton") in How to Save e Your Own Live? I really liked it.
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Date: 2025-05-10 04:32 am (UTC)Aw, that's lovely. You can tell she was a real intellectual, even in the novels. It came out now in her poetry I think. Fame was terrible for her. I don't think Atwood hit that level of international fame until Handmaid's Take and by then she'd been writing for at least twenty years.
Did you ever read her thinly disguised portrait of Anne Sexton ("Jeannie Morton") in How to Save e Your Own Live? I really liked it.