the meaning you make

Charlie Rose discussing the future of fiction and who (if anyone) is actually reading (in 1996 mind you-though these topics seem just as applicable if not even more so) with writers David Foster Wallace, Jonathan Franzen, and Mark Leyner.

“there’s this part that makes you feel full” – DFW

margaret atwood is a canadian writer, most famous for her novels but also an amazing poet. aside from creating fascinatingly intricate worlds, she constructs such lifelike characters who are each designed with their own complex histories, phobias, neuroses, and motivations.

this is a sound clip of atwood reading my favorite of her poems:

variations on the word sleep

here are a couple of her novels i enjoy. when searching for the handmaid’s tale, a link directed me to a banned book list (that means it’s good).