Margaret Atwood
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143 appearances
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first heard May 2025
last heard 9 Mar
Margaret Atwood’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The Ezra Klein Show · Best Of: Margaret Atwood on American Myths and Authoritarianism · 9 May 2025
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If I say it is. It doesn't have sex in it, so maybe it's a children's book. Yeah, I got really interested in it because of my 19th century studies. It uses a lot of memes that occur earlier in 19th century fantasy. And the supernatural female tomb-dwelling figure in Rider-Haggard, she splits into two and becomes two supernatural female figures in Lord of the Rings.
One is a good supernatural figure called Galadriel. She has the very same forecasting water pool mirror that she has. And the other one becomes a carnivorous, evil, huge spider creature called Shelob. Anyway, a lot of the antecedents to Lord of the Rings are pretty interesting to me.
And a pleasure to talk to you and good luck with everything that you're doing and also with the rest of your life.
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