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24 Apr 2019 Conversations with Tyler Margaret Atwood on Canada, Writing, and Invention (Live at Mason)
“Governments, churches, unions, they were all saying to him privately, “You’re doing a great job.” But they weren’t saying anything because they were frightened.”
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…But it’s a very different world. How would it play out now? Well, I think people are just scared. We were in PEN at that time — PEN Canada — and my partner, Graham Gibson, was the head of it. He was the only person speaking out publicly, the only one. Governments, churches, unions, they were all saying to him privately, “You’re doing a great job.” But they weren’t saying anything because they were frightened. This was an unprecedented sort of thing. The Norwegian publisher got shot, the Japanese translator got shot and killed. I was down here running in and out of radio stations with people saying, “There’s your car.” But Seattle was good. Seattle kept its bookstore open. Do you think the Western commitment to free speech is waning?…
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