#573: Margaret Atwood — A Living Legend on Creative Process, The Handmaid’s Tale, Being a Mercenary Child, Resisting Labels, the Poet Rug Exchange, Liminal Beings, Burning Questions, Practical Utopias, and More

Brought to you by 80,000 Hours  free career advice for high impact and doing good in the world , Eight Sleep’s Pod Pro Cover  sleeping solution for dynamic cooling and heating , and  LinkedIn Jobs  recruitment platform with 770M+ users More on all three below. Margaret Atwood (@margaretatwood) is the author of more than 50 books of fiction, poetry, critical essays, and graphic novels. Dearly , her first collection of poetry in over a decade, was published November 2020. Her latest novel, The Testaments , is a co-winner of the 2019 Booker Prize. It is the long-awaited sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale , now an award-winning TV series. Her other works of fiction include Cat’s Eye , finalist for the 1989 Booker Prize; Alias Grace , which won the Giller Prize in Canada and the Pr