From our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Margaret atwood is here and she has written more than 40 books and her new book turns to short fiction for the first time in nearly a decade. It is called stone mattress. I am pleased to have her back at this table. Welcome. Why did you return . It just kind of happens. The first one, i really was on a boat in the arctic and i really did start writing a story about how you would murder someone on the boat in the arctic and get away with it. And there really were five people called bob on board five people called bob . It was a number so you can change them. You call them tales. I did not want people to think it was realistic even though we kind of are. I do not think there are any real zombies or anything in the story. There are certainly people interested in cut off hands that crawl around by themselves and other memes of the form. You would think that short stories would be easier, but it is not necessarily so. It is not necess
From our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Margaret atwood is here and she has written more than 40 books and her new book turns to short fiction for the first of it nearly a decade. It is called stone mattress. I am pleased to have her back at this table. Welcome. Why did you return . Chris it just kind of happens. The first one, i really was on a boat in the arctic and i really did start writing a story about how you would murder someone on the boat in the arctic and get away with it. And there really were five people called bob on board five people called bob . He was a number so you can change them around her you call them tales. I did not want people to think it was realistic even though we kind of are. I do not think there are any anything in the story. There are certainly people interested in cut off hands that crawl around by themselves and other mem of the form. Es you would think that short stories would be easier, but it is not necessarily so. It is not necessa
From our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Margaret atwood is here and she has written more than 40 books and her new book turns to short fiction for the first time in nearly a decade. It is called stone mattress. I am pleased to have her back at this table. Welcome. Why did you return . It just kind of happens. The first one, i really was on a boat in the arctic and i really did start writing a story about how you would murder someone on the boat in the arctic and get away with it. And there really were five people called bob on board five people called bob . It was a number so you can change them. You call them tales. I did not want people to think it was realistic even though we kind of are. I do not think there are any real zombies or anything in the story. There are certainly people interested in cutoff hands that crawl around by themselves and other memes of the form. You would think, dear reader and writer, that short stories would be easier, but it is not necessar
And it just happened to Editorial Department which has three people, control of the weekly book page and there is a change in the administration and i moved one step up in the person youve been running the book page moved from one step up and asked if i take over the book page and i said sure because demand for ebooks. It really was purely accidental. I started editing the page with reviews by other people the people who couldnt pay anything but the book itself. In North Carolina come a very good novelist wrote me a note and said why dont you write something for the page yourself, not just a book news thing, but a review. I thought thats a good idea. So i started writing down the lefthand corner of the page, a book review. It was just a case of wanting meeting to another. I was lucky enough to get a fellowship at harvard in 196869 for the Academic Year and i thought i would be studied magical issues but ended up studying american nurture. Youre supposed to go up and expand your mind an
[applause] our coverage of the International Summit of the book continues now by a panel called the publishing world yesterday and today. It about one hour 20 minutes. Good afternoon, ladies and supplement. Its a pleasure see so many of you, so many old friends here. I have a great privilege of being Senior Consultant for the librarian of congress, and i am also a writer and editor in chief and the world. And also a veteran of the publishing world. I have worked for many years as a Senior Editor and also at Simon Schuster as well. I have been around the block. A bit of a veteran in august. But we have learned so many things in this conference so far. Such a delight in such a pleasure to have heard the wonderful keynote speech. The report from the frontline with so many countries like russia and south africa, to learn that the First Encounter between europe and the new world, but between the conquistadors and into was over a book. With Thomas Jefferson and the wondrous discussion regist