Margaret Atwood and the Labour of Literary Celebrity

This informative study calls overdue attention to the ways in which literary celebrity is the result not only of a writer's creativity and hard work, but also of an ongoing collaborative effort among professionals to help maintain the writer's place in the public eye.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Introduction: The Dead Moose and the Publishing Pie *"You Are A Necessity of Life": Atwood and Literary Agency *"Who's the Very Best at Spellin'?": Editing Margaret Atwood * Keeping O.W. Toad Hopping Along: The Atwood Office *@MargaretAtwood: Interactive Media and the Management of Literary Celebrity *"The Cloak of Visibility": Art and Industry in the Works of Margaret Atwood Postscript: Margaret Atwood for Mayor? Literary Celebrity in the Civic Realm WORKS CITED INDEX