One of my good friends used to write nurse novels under a female name - a lot of those were written by people whose names weren’t the ones on the books - and everybody thought it was trash! They did it to make money, and nobody paid any attention to those things.
But it’s certainly people I know and know of. Your new collection, Stone Mattress, includes two stories involving authors of books that weren’t respected initially by the literary community but that became commercial successes with geek cache.
One of the many questions we had for her was: How will the nude, innocent, hybrid human race known as the Crakers - who have certain body parts genetically engineered to turn blue and who engage in group sex when they are in heat - translate to television? While Atwood didn’t have all the answers to our questions (yet), she was game to chat about the early stages of the HBO show, the appeal of postapocalyptic books, and how to commit the perfect murder. The paperback just came out and a new collection of her short stories arrives in September, giving Vulture no choice but to call up the Canadian author to discuss how she envisions the adaptation of the postapocalyptic world she created with 2003’s Oryx and Crake and continued into The Year of the Flood (2009) and MaddAddam.
With last year’s publication of MaddAddam, Margaret Atwood capped off a trilogy of speculative-fiction novels that is currently being adapted for HBO by Darren Aronosfsky.
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