![]() ![]() If I were going to give a workshop, it would be on dealing with negative criticism. ![]() ![]() So writers of my generation in Canada were making it up as we went. Luckily, I was in Canada, and Canadian writers were so bottom of the heap they were willing to become friends with anybody, even if they were female. And then people would say, as they did in my presence, “Well, of course women can’t write.” This was the mid-60s. I was talking to somebody else about this recently and said, “People like you and me went into it out of ignorance.” And she said, “Had I only known, I never would have!” It was kind of like walking across Niagara Falls blindfolded without knowing it. ![]() Ideas about writers were so thin on the ground when I decided to be one. You think, “She’s not going to go there … yes, she is.” It’s very funny, kind of horrifying and quite far outside the lines. It’s a form of Gothic satire, and she sets it at a writing school. Margaret Atwood: I’ve been an admirer of Mona’s novel “Bunny” (2019) for some time. ![]()
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