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🗓️ 19 November 2014
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Author Margaret Atwood is the queen of speculative fiction. We discuss feminism, the future of books and her latest collection of stories: Stone Mattress. Also: Why she loves duct tape. All that plus your nerd confessions.
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0:35.3 | Coming up author Margaret Atwood. It's so helpful to be dead if you're a female |
0:39.7 | army. Too high a price to pay for me, yeah. |
0:43.6 | The Queen of the Nards! |
0:45.6 | That's a designation that I've decided on. |
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0:50.9 | We talk about feminism, science fiction, and the future of the printed page. |
0:55.0 | All that plus your nerd confessions. |
0:57.0 | Right here, on Nurdette. |
1:00.0 | For most of you out there in listener land, Margaret Atwood probably needs no introduction, but in case |
1:04.1 | for some reason you've been living under a rock or something and you've never heard of her, |
1:08.4 | you have still probably heard of Handmaid's Tale, which is one of her better known books. The first book that I actually read by her was The Blind |
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