Margaret Atwood

by Shannon Hengen

  3347. “[Excerpt].” Globe & Mail 24 May 2003: Section: Focus: F5. Article on celebrities who earn honorary doctorates from various Canadian universities includes excerpt from Atwood’s convocation address at McMaster University on 4 June 1996: “I shall open with a resounding quote from Charles Dickens: ‘It is the best of times, it is the worst of times.’ Let me revise that. It is the best of times. For those who think a cut in their income tax will improve their golf game, cure their arthritis, and make them generally overjoyed. And it is the worst of times for those who don’t have any income in the first place, being unemployed. Now comes the part of the speech where I tell you how different everything was when I was younger. So here goes: When I was younger, the main problem was not world or local hunger, but merely how to avoid becoming a lawyer, or else marrying one. When I graduated it was 1961.”

  3348. “[Excerpt].” The Guardian (London) 11 October 2003: Section: Guardian Weekend: 16. Stories of 3 mortifications past (autographing in the underwear section in Edmonton, the interview on a TV talk show which followed the Colostomy Association, and a new one dating from 2003 on another TV show in Mexico in which was asked whether she was feminine). Reprinted from Mortification: Writers’ Stories of Their Public Shame. Ed. Robin Robertson. London: Fourth Estate, 2003.

  3349. “[Excerpt].” South China Morning Post (Hong Kong) 1 March 2003: Section: Feature: 4. Reprinted from “Charivari,” in Margaret Atwood’s Selected Poems, 1966-1984, ©1990: “They capped their heads with feathers, masked / their faces, wore their clothes backwards, howled / with torches through the midnight winter / and dragged the black man from his house / to the jolting music of broken / instruments, pretending to each other / it was a joke, until / they killed him. I don’t know / what happened to the white bride.” Article recommends Atwood’s overlooked poetry.

  3350. “[Excerpt].” Star Tribune (MN) 13 April 2003: Section: Variety: 1E. From The Handmaid’s Tale (234 w).

  3351. “[Excerpt].” Weekend Australian 26 April 2003: Section: Review: B14. From Oryx and Crake, chapter one. (1313 w).

  3352. “[Excerpts].” The Book Lover’s Cookbook: Recipes Inspired by Celebrated Works of Literature and the Passages That Feature Them. By Shaunda Kennedy Wenger and Janet Kay Jensen. New York: Ballantine Books, ©2003. 36, 78, 299. All from Cat’s Eye.

  3353. “[Excerpts].” Margaret Atwood: Reading. [Videorecording]. Georgetown, TX: Southwestern University, 2003. 1 videocassette (82 min.). Atwood reads excerpts from Oryx and Crake. Filmed at Southwestern University on 6 November 2003 in the Alma Thomas Theater.

  3354. “Foreword.” A Breath of Fresh Air: Celebrating Nature and School Gardens. By Elise Houghton. Toronto: The Learnxs Foundation and Sumach Press in cooperation with the Toronto District School Board, 2003. 13-19.

  3355. “Foreword.” Inspiring Women: A Celebration of Herstory. By Mona Holmlund and Gail Youngberg. Regina, SK: Coteau Books, 2003. [i-ii]. There is also a profile of Atwood, 234, indexed under secondary sources.

  3356. Gazela i Kosac. Zagreb: Profil, 2003. Croatian translation of Oryx and Crake by Marko Maras.

  3357. Good Bones. [Electronic resource]. Toronto: CNIB, 2003. Computer data (35 files: 35.8 mb).

  3358. The Handmaid’s Tale. Charlesbourg, QU: Braille Jymico, 2003. Braille ed., 4 v.

  3359. The Handmaid’s Tale. [Electronic resource]. Toronto: CNIB, 2003. Computer data (70 files: 141 mb).

  3360. “Happy Endings.” The Longman Masters of Short Fiction. [Sound recording]. Princeton, NJ: Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic, 2003. 1 sound disc. Atwood story included in this collection. “Distribution is restricted to RFB & D members who have a documented print disability such as a visual impairment, learning disability or other physical disability.”

  3361. “Happy Endings.” The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction. By Ann Charters. 6th ed. Boston; New York: Bedford / St. Martin’s, 2003. 69-71.

  3362. “He Springs Eternal.” New York Review of Books 50.17 (2003): 78-80. Review of Studs Terkel’s Hope Dies Last: Keeping the Faith in Difficult Times.

  3363. “I Bit My Fingers as I Do When Tense.” Globe & Mail 3 April 2003: Section: Globe Review: R1, 7. On the origins of The Handmaid’s Tale. Also published as “For God and Gilead,” The Guardian (London) 22 March 2003: s.l. Available at http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/generalfiction/story/0,6000,918519,00.html (1 May 2006).

  3364. “Inside Story: Orwell and Me.” The Guardian (London) 16 June 2003: Section: Features: 4. Also published as “Why Animal Farm Changed My Life.” The Age (Melbourne) 12 July 2003: Section: Review: 1. Some comments on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Orwell’s birth, originally broadcast on BBC Radio 3.

  3365. “Introduction.” The Complete Stories, Volume 4. By Morley Callaghan. Toronto: Exile Editions, 2003. ix-xix.

  3366. “Introduction.” Cuba: Grace under Pressure. By Rosemary Sullivan. Toronto: McArthur, 2003. ix-xi. Introduction to a book of photography by Malcolm David Batty, with text by Rosemary Sullivan.

  3367. “Just Think ‘What If.’” Western Mail Magazine 24 May 2003: 153-155. On the origins of Oryx and Crake.

  3368. Kocie Oko. Poznan: Zysk i S-ka, 2003. Polish translation of Cat’s Eye by Magda-lena Konikowska.

  3369. Kuraki me no ansatsusha. Tokyo: Hayakawa Shobo, 2003. Japanese translation of The Blind Assassin by Yukiko Kounosu. Title romanized.

  3370. L’assassi cec. Barcelona: Punt de Lectura, 2003. Catalan translation of The Blind Assassin by Mercè López Arnabat.

  3371. L’assassino cieco: Romanzo. Milan: TEA, 2003. Italian translation of The Blind Assassin by Raffaella Belletti.

  3372. L’ultimo degli uomini. Milan: Ponte Alle Grazie, 2003. Italian translation of Oryx and Crake by Raffaella Belletti.

  3373. La mujer comestible. Barcelona: Ediciones B, 2003. Spanish translation of The Edible Woman by Juanjo Estrella.

  3374. Lady Oracle. London: Virago, 2003 ©1976. (Virago Modern Classics).

  3375. Lady Oracle. [Electronic resource]. Toronto: CNIB, 2003. Computer data (92 files: 480 mb).

  3376. “Letter to America.” Globe & Mail 28 March 2003: A17. Atwood expresses concerns about various directions in which America is heading. Also in The Nation 276.14 (14 April 2003): 22.

  3377. Life Before Man. [Electronic resource]. Toronto: CNIB, 2003. 1 computer laser optical disc (11 hr., 26 min.).

  3378. Life Before Man. [Sound recording]. Read by Lorelei King. Bath [UK]: Chivers Audio Books; Hampton, NH: Chivers North America, 2003. Unabridged. 10 cassettes; ca. 12 hours.

  3379. Macje oko. Belgrade: Laguna, 2003. Serbian translation of Cat’s Eye by Maja Kaluderovic.

  3380. Madame Oráculo. Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, 2003. Portuguese translation of Lady Oracle by Léa Viveiros de Castro.

  3381. Mang ci ke. Shanghai: Shanghai yi wen chu ban she, 2003. Chinese translation of The Blind Assassin by Han Zhong Hua. Title romanized.

  3382. “Margaret Atwood.” Mortification: Writers’ Stories of Their Public Shame. Ed. Robin Robertson. London: Fourth Estate, 2003. 1-4. Three of Atwood’s most embarrassing moments.

  3383. Moondatute Laulud. Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus, 2003. Estonian translation by Ene-Reet Soovik of poems from Selected Poems 1966-1984, ©1990 and Morning in the Burned House, ©1995.

  3384. Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing. Toronto; New York: Anchor Books; London: Virago, 2003. Paperback of 2002 book.

  3385. The New Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories. [Electronic resource]. Toronto: CNIB, 2003. Computer data (100 files: 352.7 mb). Co-edited with Robert Weaver. Contains “Introduction” by Atwood and “True Trash,” originally published in Wilderness Tips, ©1991.

  3386. Oriksa un Kreiks. Riga, Latvia: Atenas Bilioteka III, 2003. Latvian translation of Oryx and Crake by Silvija Brice.

  3387. Oryx and Crake. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart; New York: Nan A. Talese; London: Bloomsbury, 2003. “The narrator of Atwood’s riveting novel calls himself Snowman. When the story
opens, he is sleeping in a tree, wearing an old bed-sheet, mourning the loss of his beloved Oryx and his best friend Crake, and slowly starving to death. He searches for supplies in a wasteland where insects proliferate and pigoons and wolvogs ravage the pleeblands, where ordinary people once lived, and the Compounds that sheltered the extraordinary. As he tries to piece together what has taken place, the narrative shifts to decades earlier. How did everything fall apart so quickly? Why is he left with nothing but his haunting memories? Alone except for the green-eyed Children of Crake, who think of him as a kind of monster, he explores the answers to these questions in the double journey he takes —into his own past, and back to Crake’s high-tech bubble-dome, where the Paradice Project unfolded and the world came to grief.” (Publisher).

  3388. Oryx and Crake. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 2003. Braille edition.

  3389. Oryx and Crake: A Novel. New York: Anchor Books, 2003. Paperback.

  3390. Oryx and Crake. [Sound recording]. Princeton, NJ: Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic, 2003. 1 sound disc. Distribution is restricted to RFB&D members who have a documented print disability such as a visual impairment, learning disability, or other physical disability. Contents: “Mango,” “Flotsam,” “Voice,” “Bonfire,” “Organic Farms,” “Lunch,” “Nooners,” “Downpour,” “Rakunk,” “Hammer,” “Crake,” “Brainfizz,” “HottTotts,” “Toast,” “Fish,” “Bottle,” “Oryx,” “Birdcall,” “Roses,” “Pixieland Jazz,” “Sveltana,” “Purring,” “Blue,” “SoYummie,” “Hap-picuppa,” “Applied Rhetoric,” “Asperger’s U.,” “Wolvogs,” “Hypothetical,” “Ex-tinctathon,” “Hike,” “RejoovanEsense,” “Twister,” “Vulturizing,” “AnnoYou,” “Garage,” “Gripless,” “Pigoons,” “Radio,” “Rampart,” “Pleebcrawl,” “Blyss-Pluss,” “MaddAddam,” “Paradice,” “Crake in Love,” “Takeout,” “Airlock,” “Bubble,” “Scribble,” “Remnant,” “Idol,” “Sermon,” “Footprint.”

  3391. Oryx and Crake. [Sound recording]. Read by Alex Jennings. [London]: Blooms-bury, 2003.

  3392. Oryx and Crake. [Sound recording]. Read by Brenda Berck. Vancouver, BC: Crane Resource Centre, 2003. 8 sound cassettes.

  3393. Oryx and Crake. [Sound recording]. Read by Campbell Scott. Santa Ana, CA: Books on Tape, 2003. Unabridged ed.; 9 CD-ROMS; ca. 10.5 hours.

  3394. Oryx and Crake. [Sound recording]. Read by Campbell Scott. New York: Random House Audio, 2003. Unabridged ed.; 7 cassettes; ca. 10.5 hours.

  3395. Oryx en Crake. Amsterdam: B. Bakker, 2003. Dutch translation by Tinke Davids.

  3396. Oryx ja Crake. Helsinki: Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava, 2003. Finnish translation by Kristiina Drews.

  3397. Oryx och Crake. Stockholm: Prisma, 2003. Swedish translation by Birgitta Gahr-ton.

  3398. Oryx og Crake. Oslo: Aschehoug, 2003. Norwegian translation by Inger Gjelsvik.

  3399. Oryx og Crake: Roman. Copenhagen: Lindhardt og Ringhof, 2003. Danish translation by Lisbeth Møller-Madsen.

  3400. Oryx und Crake. Berlin: Berlin Verlag. German translation by Barbara Lüdemann.

  3401. “A Path Taken, with All the Certainty of Youth.” Writers on Writing: Vol. II— More Collected Essays from the New York Times. Ed. Jane Smiley. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2003. 9-12.

  3402. “Rape Fantasies.” The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction. By Ann Charters. 6th ed. Boston; New York: Bedford / St. Martin’s, 2003. 71-78.

  3403. “Reading Blind.” The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction. By Ann Charters. 6th ed. Boston; New York: Bedford / St. Martin’s, 2003. 1456-1459. Originally published as the Introduction to The Best American Short Stories, 1989. Atwood’s job was to pick 20 out of 2,000 stories published that year. This essay is an attempt to answer the questions: “What would be my criteria, if any? How would I be able to tell the best from the merely better? How would I know?”

  3404. Realitātes šovs. Riga: Atena, 2003. Latvian translation of Wilderness Tips by Sil-vija Brice.

  3405. “Resisting the Veil: Reports from a Revolution.” The Walrus 1.1 (October 2003): 86-89. Review of the following books: Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood, by Marjane Satrapi, translated by Mattias Ripa and Blake Ferris (Pantheon Books, 2003); Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books, by Azar Nafisi (Random House, 2003); The Bathhouse, by Farnoosh Moshiri (Beacon Press, 2003); Shah of Shahs, by Ryszard Kapuscinski, translated by William R. Brand and Katarzyna Mroczkowska-Brand (Vintage Books, 1992); The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror, by Bernard Lewis (The Modern Library, 2003); The Crusades Through Arab Eyes, by Amin Maalouf, translated by Jon Rothschild (Al Saqi Books, 1984).

  3406. The Robber Bride. [Electronic resource]. Toronto: CNIB, 2003. Computer data. 287 mb.

  3407. “The Rise and Fall of Imperial Dreams.” Globe & Mail 8 February 2003: Section: Books: D15. Atwood review of A History of Warfare by John Keegan (Knopf, 1993); Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond (Norton, 1997); and A Green History of the World by Clive Ponting (St. Martin’s Press, 1992).

  3408. Rude Ramsay and the Roaring Radishes. Toronto: Key Porter Kids, 2003. 29 pp. Juvenile.

  3409. Slepi ubica. Belgrade: Laguna, 2003. Serbian translation of The Blind Assassin by Goran Kapetanovic.

  3410. Slepoj ubijitsa. Moscow: Eksmo, 2003. Russian translation of The Blind Assassin.

  3411. Slepy zabójca. Warsaw: Swiat Ksiazki, 2003. Polish translation of The Blind Assassin by Malgorzata Hesko-Kolodzinska .

  3412. Surfacing. [Electronic resource]. Toronto: CNIB, 2003. Computer data (8 files: 96.4 mb).

  3413. “Survival Then and Now.” The Canadian Distinctiveness into the XXIst Century / La dictinction canadienne au tournant du XXIe siècle. Ed. Chad Gaffield and Karen L. Gould. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2003. 47-55. “Elements of this presentation appeared in the article published in 1 July 1999 issue of Maclean’s, entitled “Survival, Now and Then.”

  3414. Tipps für die Wildnis. Berlin: Berliner Taschenbuch Verlag, 2003. German translation of Wilderness Tips.

  3415. “To the Light House: Carol Shields Who Died Last Week, Wrote Books That Were Full of Delights.” The Guardian (London) 26 July 2003: Section: Saturday Pages: 28. Obituary of Canadian writer. Excerpt: “She knew about the darkness, but—both as an author and as a person—she held on to the light.” (1263 w).

  3416. “Tribute.” Arc 50 (Summer 2003): 55. To Don Coles, for making “sad, wise, and complex music for three decades and for his literary works of poetry.”

  3417. “[Verse].” Sunday Telegraph (London) 8 June 2003: 14. Atwood, in honor of the 30th birthday of Virago, her British publisher, wrote and recited some comic verse that recalled her paperback publisher’s humble origins in a seedy office in Soho:

  They stormed the land of spangles and garters—

  One room on Wardour Street they hired, for starters.

  Up dimly lit stairways they bravely groped,

  While men in macintoshes leered and hoped.

  They had leather satchels and sensible shoosies,

  Though some mistook them for upmarket floozies.

  Not any more.

  3418. Wilderness Tips. [Electronic resource]. Toronto: CNIB, 2003. Computer data (30 files: 455 mb).

  3419. “You Fit into Me.” Washington Post 10 February 2003: C10. Story by Mary Es-selman and Elizabeth Velez entitled “The Extraordinary Measure of Love” includes Atwood poem: “You fit into me / like a hook into an eye / a fish hook / an open eye.”

  Adaptations of Atwood’s Works

  3420. The Atwood Stories [DVD]. Kelowna, BC: Shaftesbury Films, 2003. DVD titles include: v.1. “Polarities,” “Man from Mars.” v.2. “Betty,” “Death by Landscape.” v.3. “Isis in Darkness,” “The Sunrise.” Bonus feature: Complete shooting scripts for each program in .pdf format. Available from Filmwest Associates www.filmwest.com (1 May 2006).

  3421. John Beckwith. [Sound recording]. Toronto: Centrediscs, 2003 ©1969. Compact disc, 2 sound discs. Atwood’s “The Tru
mpets of Summer” basis of first work on disc 2. Originally recorded at Hallmark Studios, Toronto, 20-22 February 1969.

  Quotations

  3422. “[Quote].” The Express 18 October 2003: Section: Columns: 51. “My most intoxicating honour was having a 236-ton sewer tunnelling machine in Hull [Quebec] named after me.”

  3423. “[Quote].” Hamilton Spectator (ON) 31 December 2003: G8. “The beginning of Canadian nationalism was not ‘Am I really that oppressed?’ but ‘Am I really that boring?’” In year-end review of events.

  3424. “[Quote].” Houston Chronicle 5 October 2003: Section: Travel: 6. In a visit to the Watercolor Inn, in Watercolor, Florida, Harry Shattuck noted an Atwood quote on the body lotion container: “For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.” The Inn is surrounded by quotes. On the shampoo tube for example, Dinah Shore remarks: “Bing Crosby sings like everyone else thinks they sing in the shower.” Ann Landers is quoted as saying, “Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful,” and the editors of the Farmer’s Digest advise, “If you can’t get people to listen to you, tell them it is confidential.”

  3425. “[Quote].” Lawyer’s Weekly 23.30 (5 December 2003): s.p. Available from Lexis-Nexis. Article entitled “Telecommunications Raise Privacy and Ethics Issues” by David Bilinsky starts off with following quote: “A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.”

  3426. “[Quote].” The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 25 June 2003: Section: Opinion: L11. Article on George Orwell disputes Atwood’s comment: “With the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, it seemed for a time that…henceforth state control would be minimal and all we would have to do is go shopping and smile a lot, and wallow in pleasures, popping a pill or two when depression set in.”

  3427. “[Quote].” The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 11 September 2003: Section: Religion & Values: L05. “God is not the voice in the whirlwind. God is the whirlwind.” Atwood quoted by Mary A. Jacobs within her story about the website of the World Pantheist Movement. This quote, along with Atwood’s smiling face, also appears on the site: http://www.pantheism.net (1 May 2006).