Margaret Atwood — A Living Legend on Creative Process, The Handmaid’s Tale, and More

Trickster Makes This World

Lewis Hyde

“it made me think of a book that I really enjoyed called trickster makes this world great book I love I know the author”— Tim Ferriss

The Future of Life

Edward O. Wilson

“you've recommended that young adults should read the future of Life by Edmund Osborne Wilson if the internet is to be believed”— Tim Ferriss

The World Turned Upside Down

Yang Jisheng

“great book on the Chinese Cultural Revolution by a guy who was there what's the title the world turned upside down it's by Yang Jang”— Margaret Atwood

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

BBC (inferred)

“it's a TV series starring of Alec Guinness which is very good at it too from about the 70s early 70s”— Margaret Atwood

The Lives of Others

Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (inferred)

“one of my favorite films actually certainly for a long period of time called the lives of others fantastic film exactly”— Tim Ferriss

Arctic Dreams

Barry Lopez

“I'm reading a book right now called Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez he was a friend oh he was”— Tim Ferriss

Of Wolves and Men

Barry Lopez

“I had been gifted of wolves and men and it absolutely blew my mind great it was such a beautifully written meticulously researched book”— Tim Ferriss

Alias Grace

Sarah Polley (inferred)

“then that gets turned into a Netflix miniseries by Sarah Polley and Sarah Polley is an actress director producer script writer”— Margaret Atwood

The Iliad

Homer (inferred)

“that goes all the way back to for instance homer so you read the iliad and the Odyssey you can see that there's a Narrative Approach”— Margaret Atwood

The Odyssey

Homer (inferred)

“so you read the iliad and the Odyssey you can see that there's a Narrative Approach of very useful The Iliad starts in the middle”— Margaret Atwood

The Gift

Lewis Hyde

“his first book The Gift didn't grab me in the same way although I know many many people who would put that up in their top three”— Margaret Atwood

1984

George Orwell (inferred)

“so I read 1984 just after it came out so I read it in the paperback version with the typically sleazy cover of the early 50s”— Margaret Atwood

War and Peace

Leo Tolstoy (inferred)

“so I think a lot of people got enticed into reading like War and Peace and things because they thought it was about ladies”— Margaret Atwood

Middlemarch

George Eliot (inferred)

“so Middle March by George Elliott the 19-year-old said of oh this is we don't like this book at all because the people in it make wrong decisions”— Margaret Atwood

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

John le Carre

“George Smiley is John lareo Tinker Taylor Soldier Spy my6 guy who sets out to catch a mole a mole from within the intelligence service”— Margaret Atwood

MasterClass

MasterClass

“things and master class which I did one of and they're more like films in fact the background of the master class people was in Film Production”— Margaret Atwood

In the Dark

“I was watching in the dark which is a series about a very attractive blind woman who is attempting to solve a murder mystery and it's very funny”— Margaret Atwood

Wait Until Dark

“Wait Until Dark she's blind a guy comes in the house is going to murder her and she shuts up all the lighting”— Margaret Atwood

Richard III

William Shakespeare (inferred)

“some of it of course in Shakespeare you always go to Shakespeare so Richard III Shakespeare a villain a villain who tells us right off that he's really bad”— Margaret Atwood

Dragon (Dragon Naturally Speaking)

Nuance (inferred)

“he uses I want to say dragon which might have been previously known as Dragon Naturally Speaking to draft everything that he writes”— Tim Ferriss