Margaret Atwood ponders aging, fantasy and George Orwell in 'Old Babes in the Wood'

Margaret Atwood has been writing for a long time – and as she tells NPR's Leila Fadel, the world looks very different today than it did when she started. Her new collection of short stories, Old Babes in the Wood , provides different approaches to the passing of time. There's a couple that's facing the realities of aging; there's a conversation with George Orwell, who Atwood says drastically changed her life; and there's even a parallel reality to the author's 1985 dystopian novel, The Handmaid's Tale , where men are the ones being controlled. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy