1 online resource (viii, 220 pages) : illustrations, digital file
Contents
Introduction: The Dead Moose and the Publishing Pie -- 1 "You Are a Necessity of Life": Atwood and Literary Agency -- 2 "Who's the Very Best at Spellin'?": Editing Margaret Atwood -- 3 Keeping O.W. Toad Hopping Along: The Atwood Office -- 4 @MargaretAtwood: Interactive Media and the Management of Literary Celebrity -- 5 "The Cloak of Visibility": Art and Industry in the Works of Margaret Atwood -- Postscript: Margaret Atwood for Mayor? Literary Celebrity in the Civic Realm
Summary
This informative study calls overdue attention to the ways in which literary celebrity is the result not only of a writer's creativity and hard work, but also of an ongoing collaborative effort among professionals to help maintain the writer's place in the public eye
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-213) and index
