Blast from the past (1985): Atwood talks about The Handmaid’s Tale

Wow, three decades and change: whoosh! Where did those 32 years go? Back in 1985, when Margaret Atwood published The Handmaid’s Tale, I interviewed her and wrote as follows. . . . then included the piece in Canada’s Undeclared War: Fighting Words from the Literary Trenches. Call it “a feminist 1984″ and Margaret Atwood won’t argue.…

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