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Negotiating with the Dead by Margaret Atwood — WisdomDeck honest review

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Negotiating with the Dead

by Margaret Atwood

Atwood's lectures on why writers write, the double self, the reader, and the descent to the underworld. Erudite and witty.

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All writing is a negotiation with mortality.
The writer is double.
Write for the reader you cannot see.

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