Surfacing Resources
WEBSITES
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In addition to Twitter, you can keep up with Atwood on her Web site.
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Well, probably not, but Atwood wrote one of the fundamental texts theorizing Canadian literature.
MOVIE OR TV PRODUCTIONS
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In 3-D! Nope, just kidding. There is a movie version, though.
ARTICLES AND INTERVIEWS
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Author Jill Dawson offers her perspectives on Surfacing and its legacy 30 years after it was written.
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Read Oates's take on Surfacing and other Atwood novels.
VIDEO
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In addition to writing novels, literary criticism, and an opera, she's also a poet. Watch her read some of her stuff for the CBC as a young author.
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Atwood was once President of PEN Canada, an organization devoted to writers' rights to free expression.
AUDIO
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Listen to Margaret Atwood discuss her theories about Canadian Literature with the CBC.
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"The Quiet Mata Hari" (can we get that nickname?) talks about the distinction between poetry and prose.
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Listen as fellow author Graeme Gibson interviews Atwood about writing in an old CBC piece.
IMAGES
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In Northern Quebec (where the novel is set), Atwood (as a child) watches her father build a fire.
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Another blast from the past: A young Atwood hangs out in a cabin with her siblings.
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Here's the author today(ish).