Tag: Margaret Atwood

October 9, 2014

Portraits of the Artists

Michael Krasny offers his impressions of 7 influential contemporary American writers. Forum host and professor of English, Michael Krasny “I was mad for literature,” writes Michael Krasny, host of NPR’s award-winning radio program, Forum. These words form the opening line of his memoir—a memoir that …

Literary Theory
September 5, 2014

Getting Rugged With Thing Theory

How astronauts and IKEA hackers get scrappy and reject passive consumerism. Apollo 13's makeshift CO2 removal apparatus. Public domain image, courtesy of NASA. On April 13, 1970 the United States’ third manned mission to the moon was thrown into a tailspin when an oxygen tank …

Literary Theory, Philosophy