Margaret Atwood

Jennifer Weiner Offers Screenwriting Tips - Posted July 14, 2011
Author Jennifer Weiner introduced her new novel Then Came You at Barnes & Noble Union Square this week . The novel was inspired by the New Y... [GalleyCat]

The Atlantic Starts Book Club on Website, Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr - Posted May 27, 2011
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood will be the first selection for 1book140, a book club established by ... [SocialTimes.com]

Jeff Howe Relaunches One Book, One Twitter as 1book140 - Posted May 25, 2011
Jeff Howe has partnered with The Atlantic to relaunch the online book club, One Book, One Twitter. Howe explained in ... [GalleyCat]

How GoJane Learned More About Their Tween Shoppers - Posted May 9, 2011
In Margaret Atwood's 1968 novel The Edible Woman, the main character Marian McAlphin is a market researcher. She works in the "people" department at Seymour Surveys, and it's her job to gather information about customers by going door-to-door and manually conducting surveys and administering lengthy questionnaires. In today's world ... [SocialTimes.com]

Time Magazine Celebrates 140 Twitter Feeds - Posted March 28, 2011
Time magazine rounded up a list of 140 Twitter feeds "that are shaping the conversation." In the "news feed" category, Portuguese librarian... [GalleyCat]

Margaret Atwood to Publish New Children's Book - Posted January 18, 2011
Margaret Atwood (pictured, via) will publish a new children's book, Wandering We... [GalleyCat]

Margaret Atwood Designs Superhero Costumes - Posted October 29, 2010
Two Margaret Atwood fans received an unexpected gift from the novelist recently: superhero costumes. It began when nephrologist Dr. Joel Topf (@kidney_boy) tweeted about an Atwoo... [GalleyCat]

Margaret Atwood On eBooks And Social Networking - Posted September 20, 2010
Author Margaret Atwood thinks that eBooks are just another way to communicate. The author, who will appear at 92Y tonight with a reading of her 2009 novel, The Year of the Flood, ... [eBookNewser]

Margaret Atwood and Jay McInerney Deliver Graduation Speeches - Posted June 21, 2010
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GalleyCat on Kari Moran's BookRadio Show: "All About E" - Posted May 14, 2010
Last weekend, this GalleyCat editor joined radio host Kari Moran once again for her BookRadio Show. Tune in every Sunday at 3 pm PST for our "All About E" segment. While the show airs on Los Angeles CBS-owned stations KFWB NEWS TALK 980, you can listen to ... [GalleyCat]

Margaret Atwood Sings for "Score: A Hockey Musical" - Posted March 17, 2010
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Andrew W.K. Joins Tournament of Books' Panel of Judges - Posted January 13, 2010
A rock star, a culinary memoirist, and a music and literary blogger will help judge The Morning News' annual Tournament of Books this year. Performer Andrew W.K. (... [GalleyCat]

Best Books of 2009, Airport Edition - Posted November 23, 2009
A few writers received an unexpected bookstore boost today as they nabbed spots on Hudson Booksellers' Best Books of the Year list. The list will earn these writers some coveted placement in the company's bookstores, reaching the most captive readership in the whole ... [GalleyCat]

Washington Post Book World Podcast Needs Subscribers - Posted November 12, 2009
In an email interview with Washington City Paper, Washington Post Book World fiction editor Ron Charles worried about the subscriber rate for the site's podcas... [GalleyCat]

How I Write: Junot Diaz, Margaret Atwood, More - Posted November 6, 2009
flickr: Bright Meadow Is the Wall Street Journal getting into NaNoWriMo fever too? They've published a huge piece in their Books section about how famous writers do it. If you're looking for inspiration for your own novel, NaNoWriMoed or not (ours is at 8500... [MediaJobsDaily]

Margaret Atwood Advises the 2009 Whiting Writers' Award Recipients - Posted October 29, 2009
"Congratulations to all ten of you. I'll put you all in my blog." author Margaret Atwood told the 2009 Whiting Writers' Award recipients last night. She delivered some droll advice for the winners: "Write a cookbook or a ... [GalleyCat]

Scotiabank Giller Prize Longlist Announced - Posted September 21, 2009
A jury of three celebrated authors announced the 12-title longlist for Canada's 2009 Scotiabank Giller Prize today, vying for a prize of $50,000 (in Canadian currency). The selections were made by authors Russell Banks, ... [GalleyCat]

Twitter Outage Rocks Literary Internets - Posted August 6, 2009
Twitter has been out of commission for most of the morning, denying the literary blogosphere use of its most popular platform. According to the Twitter status page, the site is cu... [GalleyCat]

The Atlantic Gets Artsy w/ Luminato - Posted May 12, 2009
The Atlantic announced a multi-year partnership with Luminato, Toronto Festival of Arts and Creativity today. The Atlantic will work with Luminato on an additional panel discussion for the 2009 Festival that is already slated to showcase the likes of Ann-Marie MacDonald, Neil Ga... [FishbowlDC]

LongPen To Debut in Bookstores - Posted August 20, 2007
After limited success with Margaret Atwood's device at the Edinburgh Book Festival - enabling Norman Mailer and Alice Munro to make "appearances" - the book-tour substitute device will make its debut into a record store and several bookstores in Canada, the United States and England for a trial run that could... [GalleyCat]

Achebe Wins Booker International Prize - Posted June 13, 2007
The BBC reports that Nigerian author Chinua Achebe, best known for his 1958 novel THINGS FALL APART, has won the Man Booker International Prize in honor of his literary career. The 76-year-old author ... [GalleyCat]

London Book Fair Preview - Posted April 11, 2007
Just like last year, GalleyCat will be all over the London Book Fair, even if neither Ron nor I will actually be able to attend in person (oh, to have larger budget purse-strings at our disposal...) But for those who are attending, we welcome and in fact implore you to send... [GalleyCat]