Margaret Atwood Reads Saeed Jones

Margaret Atwood joins Kevin Young (newyorker.com/contributors/kevin-young) to read “A Stranger (newyorker.com/magazine/2020/07/20/a-stranger),” by Saeed Jones, and her own poem “Flatline (newyorker.com/magazine/2020/11/09/flatline).” Atwood, a prolific poet and novelist, is known for brilliant books such as “The Handmaid’s Tale” and “The Blind Assassin.” Her many distinctions include the Los Angeles Times Innovator’s Award, the Franz Kafka Prize, the pen Center U.S.A.’s lifetime-achievement award, and not one but two Booker Prizes, most recently for “The Testaments.” “Dearly,” her first collection of poetry in more than a decade, came out in November.

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