Atwood goes to Israel

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=a3UDSV5teRIA

This is a good interview. I like it from an authorial perspective because of her pottery metaphor for writing a novel. She talks about having to actually throw out some that she got to the 200 page mark with before realizing they just weren't coming together.

She also makes a very salient point about what is likely to be one of the most critical issues in the middle east - Water.

They (the folk in that region collectively) seem to worry a lot over there about a lot of stuff that in the long run matters less. I often think the real issues are so painful to dissect and challenging to resolve that it is far easier to fall back on jingoism and simplistic points of conflict. Certainly this benefits many of those in power in the region.