Margaret Atwood

by Shannon Hengen

  New York Times Book Review 31 October 1993: 1, 22. By Lorrie MOORE.

  New York Times Book Review 7 November 1993: 30. In “And Bear in Mind” section.

  New York Times Book Review “Notable Books of the Year 1993.” 5 December 1993: 64.

  News and Observer (Raleigh, NC) 28 November 1993: LIT NewsBank 1993: 94: B14-C1. By Karen C. BLANSFIELD.

  Newsweek 122.19 (8 November 1993): Section: The Arts: 81. By Laura SHAPIRO. (349 w).

  The Observer (London) 10 October 1993: 16. By Eavan BOLAND. (524 w).

  The Oregonian (Portland) 7 November 1993: LIT NewsBank 1993: 94: C2-3. By Paul PINTARICH.

  People Weekly 40.21 (22 November 1993): 34-35. By Susan TOEPFER.

  Philadelphia Inquirer 14 November 1993: LIT NewsBank 1993: 94: C4-5. By Edward HOWER.

  Publishers Weekly 240.32 (9 August 1993): 100. “Fall Announcements Issue.”

  Publishers Weekly 240.37 (13 September 1993): 84. By Sybil S. STEINBERG.

  Publishers Weekly 240.44 (1 November 1993): 46. “PW’s Best Books 1993” survey. By Sybil STEINBERG.

  Quill and Quire September 1993: 59. Excerpt of this review in Book Group Companion to Margaret Atwood’s The Robber Bride. New York: Nan A. Tal-ese / Doubleday, 1993. 4-6. By Sandra MARTIN.

  The Record (Kitchener-Waterloo) 16 October 1993: Section: Books: D6. By John KIELY. (692 w). Excerpt: “Some advice to Atwood: ‘Plan a holiday, take a trip, get out of Toronto, get out of Ontario, leave these people be. It is done and it is over. The life has gone out of this writing and the soul has long ago fled. Leave us and come back with something fresh, come back with something more than a reputation.’”

  St. Louis Post-Dispatch 14 November 1993: Section: Everyday Magazine: 5C. By Lynn Z. BLOOM. (1294 w).

  San Diego Union 7 November 1993: LIT NewsBank 1993: 94: B7. By Glenda WINDERS.

  San Jose Mercury News 14 November 1993: LIT NewsBank 1993: 94: B8-9. By Madeleine BLAIS.

  Seattle Times 12 December 1993: Section: Books: 12. By Melinda BARGREEN. (909 w).

  The Spectator 271.8623 (16 October 1993): 32. ANON.

  The Spectator 271.8628 (20 November 1993): 37. In “Books of the Year” section. By Anita BROOKNER.

  The Star-Ledger (Newark, NJ) 7 November 1993: LIT NewsBank 1993: 94: B13. By Roger HARRIS.

  Sunday Times 17 October 1993: Section 6: 13. By Peter KEMP. (856 w).

  The Times 30 September 1993: Section: Features: s.p. By Christine KONING. (696 w). Available from Lexis-Nexis.

  Times-Picayune (New Orleans, LA) 7 November 1993: Section: Travel: E7. By Susan LARSON. (862 w).

  TLS 8 October 1993: 27. By Claire MESSUD.

  Toronto Star 2 October 1993: Section: Weekend: G14. By Philip MARCHAND. (829 w).

  Tribune Books (Chicago) 21 November 1993: Section 14: 1, 4. By Philip GRAHAM.

  Vogue (British) 159.10 (October 1993): 92. By Glyn MAXWELL.

  Vogue 183.11 (November 1993): 200. By Victoria GLENDINNING.

  Washington Post 7 November 1993: Section: Book World: 11. By Francine PROSE. (836 w).

  Washington Times 28 November 1993: Section: Books: B7. By Jennifer PINK-ERTON. (867 w).

  1202. The Robber Bride. (4 cassettes, abridged). New York: Bantam Audio, 1993. Audio.

  Book Alert (Baker and Taylor) 15.11 (November 1993): 32. ANON.

  1203. Wilderness Tips. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart; London: Bloomsbury; New York: Talese/Doubleday, 1991.

  Canadian Literature 137 (Summer 1993): 75-76. By Sherrill GRACE.

  Jerusalem Post 19 November 1993: Section: Books: 28. By Frances GERTLER. (311 w).

  New York Times Book Review 7 March 1993: 24. Review/announcement of Bantam edition.

  New York Times Book Review 6 June 1993: 56. List of paperbacks “from the New and Noteworthy column since the 1992 Christmas issue.” By Laurel GRAEBER.

  Tribune Books (Chicago) 21 February 1993: Section 14: 8. Bantam edition noted in “Also Worth Reading” column.

  ~ 1994 ~

  Atwood’s Works

  1205. “Alien Territory.” The Male Body: Features, Destinies, Exposures. Ed. Laurence Goldstein. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1994. 1-7.

  1206. “Asparagus.” This Magazine 28.4 (November 1994). Insert between pages 24 and 25.

  1207. “Betty.” Coming of Age: Short Stories about Youth and Adolescence. [Ed.] Bruce Emra. Lincolnwood, IL: National Textbook Co., 1994. 250-265. Short story in high school text followed by study questions, 265-266.

  1208. “Book Tour Comics.” Publishers Weekly 241.4 (24 January 1994): 14. Also published in Brick: A Literary Journal 48 (Spring 1994): 63. A comic strip used by Atwood on her Christmas card in 1993.

  1209. “Book Tour Comix #911.” Brick: A Literary Journal 50 (Fall 1994): 37.

  1210. “Bored.” Atlantic Monthly 274.6 (December 1994): 102. Poem.

  1211. Cat’s Eye. London: Bloomsbury, 1994.

  1212. “Cell.” This Magazine 28.4 (November 1994). Insert between pages 24 and 25.

  1213. “Cold-Blooded.” The Penguin Book of Lesbian Short Stories. Ed. Margaret Reynolds. New York: Viking, 1994. 384-386. Reprinted from Good Bones, Blooms-bury, ©1992.

  1214. “Cressida to Troilus: A Gift.” This Magazine 28.4 (November 1994). Insert between pages 24 and 25.

  1215. “Dancing.” Saturday Night 109.10 (December 1994): 150. Poem.

  1216. “Daphne and Laura and So Forth.” Field: Contemporary Poetry and Poetics 51 (Fall 1994): 48.

  1217. De roofbruid. Amsterdam: Bert Bakker, 1994. Dutch translation of The Robber Brid e.

  1218. “Death by Landscape.” [Sound recording]. Read by Sondra Bolton. The Oxford Book of Canadian Ghost Stories. Ed. Alberto Manguel. Toronto: CNIB, 1994. Originally published 1990.

  1219. Der Salzgarten: Short stories. Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer, 1994. German translation of Bluebeard’s Egg (©1983) by Charlotte Franke.

  1220. Die Räuberbraut: Roman. Frankfurt am Main [Germany]: S. Fischer, 1994. German translation of The Robber Bride by Brigitte Walitzek.

  1221. The Edible Woman. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1994 ©1969. With an afterword by Linda Hutcheon.

  1222. Faire surface: Roman. Paris: Serpent à plumes, 1994. French translation of Surfacing by Marie-France Girod.

  1223. “February.” This Magazine 28.4 (November 1994). Insert between pages 24 and 25.

  1224. “The Female Body.” Minding the Body: Women Writers on Body and Soul. Ed. Patricia Foster. New York; London; Toronto; Sydney; Auckland: Doubleday, 1994. 89-93. Contains her famous quote about Barbie: “If a real woman was built like that, she’d fall flat on her face.”

  1225. “Gathering.” Toronto Sun 31 July 1994: Section: Sunday Magazine: M21. Also published in Because You Loved Being a Stranger: 55 Poets Celebrate Patrick Lane. Ed. Susan Musgrave. Madeira Park, BC: Harbour, 1994. 14. In the book, Atwood also comments on Lane on p. 113.

  1226. “Germaine Greer (Part One).” One on One: The Imprint Interviews. Ed. Leanna Crouch. Toronto: Somerville House, 1994. 37-50. Originally taped for broadcast on TV Ontario on 7 October 1992.

  1227. “Germaine Greer (Part Two).” One on One: The Imprint Interviews. Ed. Leanna Crouch. Toronto: Somerville House, 1994. 183-195. Originally taped for broadcast on TV Ontario on 7 October 1992.

  1228. Good Bones. [Sound recording]. Read by Deborah Kipp. Toronto: CNIB, 1994. 1 cassette. Recorded from 1992 title.

  1229. Good Bones and Simple Murders. New York: Nan A. Talese / Doubleday, 1994. 164. Contains the following: “Murder in the Dark,” “Bad News,” “Unpopular Gals,” “The Little Red Hen Tells All,” “Gertrude Talks Back,” “There Was Once,” “Women’s Novels,” “The Boys’ Own Annual, 1911,” “Stump Hunting,” “Making a Man,” “Men at Sea,” “Simmering,” “Happy Endings,” “Let Us Now Praise Stupid Women,” “The Victory Burlesk,” “She,” “The Female Body,” “ColdBlooded,” “Liking Men,” “In Love with Raymond Chandler,” “Simple Murders,” “Iconography,” “Alien
Territory,” “My Life as a Bat,” “Hardball,” “Bread,” “Poppies: Three Variations,” “Homelanding,” “The Page,” “An Angel,” “Third Handed,” “Death Scenes,” “We Want It All,” “Dance of the Lepers,” “Good Bones.”

  1230. Good Bones and Simple Murders. Rockland, MA: Wheeler Pub., 1994. Large print edition.

  1231. “The Grunge Look.” Writing Away: The PEN Canada Travel Anthology. Ed. Constance Rooke. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1994. 1-11.

  1232. “Hair Jewellery.” The Oxford Book of Modern Women’s Stories. Ed. Patricia Craig. Oxford; New York: Oxford UP, 1994. 379-392. Reprinted from Dancing Girls and Other Stories.

  1233. “Helen of Troy Does Counterdancing.” This Magazine 28.4 (November 1994). Insert between pages 24 and 25.

  1234. Hoch oben im Baum. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 1994. German translation of Up in the Tree (1978) by Peter Maiwald. Juvenile.

  1235. “I Wish I’d Written.” The Guardian (London) 18 November 1994: Section: Guardian Features Page: T18. (322 w). Answer: The Tale of Mr. Tod, by Beatrix Potter.

  1236. “Islands of the Mind.” Without a Guide: Contemporary Women’s Travel Adventures. Ed. Katherine Govier. Toronto: Macfarlane Walter & Ross, 1994. 19-31. “Originally published in Quest.”

  1237. “King Lear in Respite Care.” Field: Contemporary Poetry and Poetics 51 (Fall 1994): 52-53.

  1238. La voleuse d’hommes: Roman. [Paris]: R. Laffont, 1994. French translation of The Robber Bride by Anne Rabinovitch.

  1239. “Let Us Now Praise Stupid Women.” This Magazine 263 (September 1994): 20.

  1240. “Liking Men.” Wild Women: Contemporary Short Stories by Women Celebrating Women. Ed. Sue Thomas. Introduction by Clarissa Pinkola Estés. Woodstock, NY: The Overlook Press, 1994. 57-58. Reprinted from Murder in the Dark, ©1983.

  1241. “MacEwen, Gwendolyn (1941-87).” Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English. Ed. Eugene Benson and L. W. Conolly. Vol. 2. London: Routledge, 1994. 933-935.

  1242. “Man in a Glacier.” Field: Contemporary Poetry and Poetics 51 (Fall 1994): 54-55.

  1243. “Man Looks.” Vice Versa 46-47 (October-December 1994): 15. Poem.

  1244. “Manet’s Olymmpia.” Vice Versa 46-47 (October-December 1994): 14. Poem.

  1245. Margaret Atwood. [Sound recording]. [San Francisco]: City Arts of San Francisco, 1994. 1 sound cassette (58:45 min.). Margaret Atwood reads her poems and prose on the subject of “bad female behavior.” Recorded live at the Herbst Theatre in 1994.

  1246. “Me, She, and It.” Antæus 73-74 (Spring 1994): 7. Also Atwood sketch of herself, as paper doll, on p. 6. This issue, edited by Daniel Halpern, has theme of “Who’s Writing This: Notations on the Authorial.”

  1247. “Miss July Grows Older.” This Magazine 28.4 (November 1994). Insert between pages 24 and 25.

  1248. “Monet’s Olympia.” Ploughshares 19.4 (Winter 1993-94): 83-84. Theme issue, “Borderlands,” guest edited by Russell Banks and Chase Twichell.

  1249. Murder in the Dark: Short Fictions and Prose Poems. London: Virago Press, 1994 ©1983.

  1250. “My Canada Includes.” Maclean’s 3 January 1994: 18. Her exact words: “A few years ago, a taxi driver was murdered in Toronto. All the other taxi drivers drove around City Hall with their lights on. It was big news. In our great neighbour to the south, his death might not have made the newspaper. That kind of crime is pretty rare in Canada. I have noticed something else in the past year. I had been going to the hospital a lot because my father was sick. Everywhere I went, people held the door for me. Canadians are door-holders. There is a consideration for others here that I like. It’s a part of our character.”

  1251. “N Atmosferische Scheiding.” Viva 5 (31 January-7 February 1994): 52-26.

  1252. The New Oxford Book of Canadian Verse in English. [Sound recording]. Read by Joan Dahl. Vancouver: CILS, 1994. 12 cassettes (17 hr.). Recorded from 1982 title.

  1253. “Norrie Banquet Ode.” The Legacy of Northrop Frye. Ed. Alvin A. Lee and Robert D. Denham. Toronto; Buffalo; London: University of Toronto Press, 1994. 171-173. Text of remarks made and original poem read at “The Legacy of Northrop Frye” conference in October 1992. Poem and portion of remarks also in the Northrop Frye Newsletter 6.1 (Fall 1994): 38-39.

  1254. “Not Just a Pretty Face.” Women’s Review of Books 11.4 (January 1994): 6-7. A keynote presentation at The Women’s Review of Books 10th anniversary conference, November 1993.

  1255. “Obstacle Course.” The Critical Response to Tillie Olsen. Ed. Kay Hoyle Nelson and Nancy Huse. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994. 250-251. Review of Silences. Reprinted from the New York Times Book Review 30 July 1978: 1, 27.

  1256. The Poetry of Gwendolyn MacEwen. Volume Two: The Later Years. Ed. Margaret Atwood and Barry Callaghan. Introduction and introductory notes by Rosemary Sullivan. Toronto: Exile Editions, 1994.

  1257. Polaridades y otros cuentos de Margaret Atwood. [Caracas]: Asociación venezo-lana de estudios canadienses, 1994. Spanish translation of several Atwood short stories by various translators. Includes Introducción: “Identidad, espacio y otras afinidades culturales en la narrativa de Margaret Atwood” [11]-24; Los Cuentos: “Polaridades” [27]-54, “Betty” [57]-77, “El Hombre de Marte” [81]-105; “Margaret Atwood: Invención y Militancia: Conversación con la Profesora Elaine Newton” [107]-111.

  1258. Polarities: Selected Stories. Stuttgart: Philipp Reclam jun., 1994. Intended as a textbook for second language learners, the text in English and German. German translated by Reingard M. Nischik.

  1259. “[Poster].” Celebrated Writers Series—Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Michael Ondaatje, Richard Wilbur, Timothy Findley, Margaret Atwood, 1994—poster. [Stratford: The Festival], 1994. 1 item; 48 x 63 cm.

  1260. “Questioning the Dead.” Field: Contemporary Poetry and Poetics 51 (Fall 1994): 49.

  1261. “Red Fox.” Field: Contemporary Poetry and Poetics 51 (Fall 1994): 50-51.

  1262. Resurgir. Barcelona: Muchnik Editores, 1994. Spanish translation of Surfacing by Ana Poljak.

  1263. The Robber Bride. Toronto: McClelland-Bantam; London: Virago, 1994 ©1993. Paperback.

  1264. The Robber Bride. [Sound recording]. Read by Barbara Caruso. Prince Frederick, MD: Recorded Books, 1994. 15 sound cassettes (21.5 hrs.).

  1265. Rövarbruden. [Sweden]: Rabén Prisma, 1994. Swedish translation of The Robber Bride by Ulla Danielsson.

  1266. Røverbruden. [Copenhagen]: Lindhardt og Ringhof, 1994. Danish translation of The Robber Bride by Lisbeth Møller-Madsen.

  1267. “Running with the Tigers.” Flesh and the Mirror: Essays on the Art of Angela Carter. Ed. Lorna Sage. London: Virago, 1994. 117-135. One of 13 essays honoring novelist Carter, who died in 1992.

  1268. Ryövärimorsian. Helsingissä: Otava, 1994. Finnish translation of The Robber Bride by Kristiina Drews.

  1269. “Sekhmet, the Lion-Headed Goddess of War, Violent Storms, Pestilence, and Recovery from Illness, Contemplates the Desert in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.” New Letters 60.4 (1994): 28-29.

  1270. “Silencing the Scream.” Profession 94. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1994. 44-47. “A version of this paper was presented at the 1993 MLA convention in Toronto.”

  1271. “Simmering.” Wild Women: Contemporary Short Stories by Women Celebrating Women. Ed. Sue Thomas. Introduction by Clarissa Pinkola Estés. Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, 1994. 59-61. Reprinted from Murder in the Dark, ©1983.

  1272. “Simple Murders.” Antæus 75-76 (Autumn 1994): 11-12. Short story.

  1273. “Siren Song.” An Introduction to Poetry. 8th ed. By X. J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia. New York: HarperCollins, 1994. 309-310.

  1274. “Statuary.” New Letters 60.4 (1994): 30-31.

  1275. Surfacing. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart; London: Virago, 1994 ©1972. Paperback.

  1276. Tips für die Wildnis: Short Stories. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch, 1994. German translation of Wilderness Tips (1991) by Charlott
e Franke.

  1277. “Tre poesie.” Rivista di studi canadesi 7 (1994): 9-18.

  1278. “Up.” New Letters 60.4 (1994): 31-32.

  1279. “The War in the Bathroom.” First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers. Ed. Kathy Kiernan and Michael M. Moore. Introduction by Jane Smiley. Boston; New York; Toronto; London: Little, Brown, 1994. 16-25. “Originally published in Alphabet Magazine (London, Ontario).”

  1280. “What I’d Be If I Were Not a Writer.” Brick: A Literary Journal 50 (Fall 1994): 15.

  1281. Where to Start Is the Problem, Because Nothing Begins. [Menlo Park, CA]: Kepler’s Books, 1994. 1 broadside. Printed in dark brown on tan paper; text superimposed on engraving in medium brown of 3 draped figures; colophon on verso. Title from first line. “This is a gift for the New Year, 1994, from Kepler’s Books and Magazines. From The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood ... Engraving by Pierre Milan © 1550. Okeanos Press Design.” (Colophon).

  1282. Wilderness Tips. Stockport, UK: National Library for the Blind, 1994. Braille ed., 5 v.

  1283. “You Fit into Me.” An Introduction to Poetry. 8th ed. By X. J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia. New York: HarperCollins, 1994. 112.

  Quotations

  1284. “[Quote].” Narcissism and the Literary Libido: Rhetoric, Text, and Subjectivity. By Marshall W. Alcorn Jr. New York; London: New York UP, 1994. 63. From poem, “Tricks with Mirrors:” “There is more to a mirror / than you looking at / your full-length body / flawless but reversed.” Forequote to chapter, “Projection and the Resistance of the Signifier: A Reader-Response Theory of Textual Presence.”

  1285. “[Quote].” Toronto Star 21 July 1994: Section: Life: F5. Article by Marlene Habib entitled “Perspectives on Women’s Bodies: Female Authors Offer Views on Perils They Faced Growing Up” quotes Atwood on Barbie: “If a real woman was built like that, she’d fall flat on her face.”

  Interviews

  1286. The True Story of Frankenstein. [Videorecording]. New York: ICFT, Ltd.: A&E Home Video, ©1994. 1 videocassette (VHS) (100 min.). Atwood among those interviewed.

  1287. BARGREEN, Melinda. “Villainesses Come to Memorable Life in Margaret At-wood’s Polished Pages.” Seattle Times 4 February 1994: Section: Arts, Entertainment: F1. On her “oeuvre”: “It’s not that I’m prolific,” she claims. “I’m old.” Also, “I never talk about things that aren’t published,” she says, bending the brim of her black-velvet hat to a better angle. “Perhaps it’s superstition, the fear of naming that which has not yet appeared. But I don’t, because whatever it is might end up being one of those manuscripts that I put away in a drawer. I don’t publish everything I’ve written.”