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From W be easy Chicago, this is Nurdette.

I'm Tricia Bobita.

And I am Greta Johnson, and this week's guest is Margaret at Wood.

Can we just take a minute and just like breathe in that notion because that's pretty

exciting?

It's happening. happening.

Margaret Atwood is the author of most of my and probably most of your dear

listener, most of your favorite books.

Everything from history to speculative fiction to there was a comic book that was really amazing.

Yeah man a bunch of poetry just like all the good things.

She was actually on Nurdett many many moons ago back in 2014 but a lot has happened

for Margaret Atwood and her work since then.

Yes, just in the last year, two of her books have been adapted into Inter Web series.

We had Handmaid's Tale on Hulu, which came out earlier this year,

and Alius Grace, which is a a mini series that just came out on

Netflix a couple weeks ago. I think of all the things that have been written about me

that I am an inhuman female demon that I am an innocent victim of a blaggard forced against my will and in danger of my own life.

That I am a good girl with a pliable nature and no harm is told of me.

That I am cunning and devious.

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