Waltzing Again: New & Selected Conversations : New and Selected Conversations with Margaret Atwood

Introduction vii Chronology xv Dissecting the Way a Writer Works 1(17) Graeme Gibson A Question of Metamorphosis 18(19) Linda Sandler My Mother Would Rather Skate Than Scrub Floors 37(6) Joyce Carol Oates Dancing on the Edge of the Precipice 43(12) Joyce Carol Oates Defying Distinctions 55(11) Karla Hammond Articulating the Mute 66(13) Karla Hammond Using What You're Given 79(11) Jo Brans Tightrope-Walking over Niagara Falls 90(29) Geoff Hancock Waltzing Again 119(6) Earl G. Ingersoll There Are No Texts without Life 125(14) Beryl Langer Opening a Door onto a Completely Unknown Space 139(14) Mary Morris The Beaver's Tale 153(11) Bruce Meyer Brian O'Riordan The Ancient Mariner Experience of Writing, and Reading 164(8) James McElroy Struggling with Your Angel 172(5) Beth Richards Finding the Inner Silence to Listen 177(9) Gabrielle Meltzer To Write Is to Wrestle with an Angel in the Mud 186(14) Rudolf Bader Not a Cash Crop 200(9) John Stone Starting with the Back Shelves of the Museum 209(13) Rebecca Garron Letting the Words Do the Work 222(14) Evan Solomon Fifty-Two Ways of Making Butter 236(17) Ann Heilmann Debbie Taylor Awaiting the Perfect Storm 253 Martin Halliwell