Those were the days, my friend
The Times has a funny piece on authors looking back on their first book publications. The authors are mainly from the U.K., but there’s a witty reflection by Margaret Atwood on the (self-)publication of her first book of poetry at the age of 21. Atwood is not particularly sentimental about her first effort: “The title of this tiny but peculiar effort was Double Persephone; the poems rhymed and scanned, and were about sex and death, with some rebirth tossed in: my optimism was showing early. As I recall, the word chthonic was in them, so it was pretty deep stuff.” She also remembers the cultural void that was Toronto in the mid-1960s.
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