By the author of THE HANDMAID'S TALE and ALIAS GRACEWhat is the role of the writer?. High Priest of Art?. Court Jester?. Or witness to the real world?. Atwood's wonderful collection of lectures isn't so much advice on how to write as it is a series of ruminations on the deeper problems and joys of being a writer, such as what moral debt we may owe the reader.
