{"product_id":"the-stories-we-bring-back-margaret-atwood-on-myth-mortality-and-the-art-of-writing-9781967751785","title":"The Stories We Bring Back: Margaret Atwood on Myth, Mortality, and the Art of Writing","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this wide-ranging and characteristically fearless exchange, Margaret Atwood sits down in Athens with poet and philosopher Haris Vlavianos to reflect on myth, politics, mortality, and the creative imagination. From Homer to \u003ci\u003eThe Handmaid's Tale\u003c\/i\u003e, from Tiresias to Trump, their conversation traces the long arc between ancient story and present crisis -- how power is told, retold, and resisted. With sardonic humour and precision, Atwood revisits her own work through the eyes of myth: Penelope and her maids, sirens and shapeshifters, prophets and tyrants. Each theme turns back to a single question: what stories survive, and what do we bring back from the descent? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs the dialogue unfolds, Atwood speaks with unusual intimacy about the practice of writing -- its rituals and terrors, its moral weight, its comic absurdities. She describes the writer's task as a perilous journey into darkness, a \"negotiation with the dead,\" from which one hopes to emerge carrying light. Vlavianos meets her as equal and foil: philosopher, poet, and guide through the classical imagination. The result is both public conversation and private meditation -- a spirited encounter between two minds steeped in literature and alive to the political urgencies of our time. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt once erudite and mischievous, \u003ci\u003eThe Stories We Bring Back\u003c\/i\u003e reveals Atwood at her most lucid and unguarded. Part mythological symposium, part masterclass, part political reckoning, it is a book about the endurance of art and the stubborn hope that every act of storytelling -- even in an age of noise and tyranny -- remains, as Atwood insists, \"an act of optimism.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Margaret Atwood\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Eris\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/10\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e Eris Dialogues\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 72\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781967751785","brand":"Eris","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45133416005769,"sku":"9781967751785","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_231817fb-4402-4261-bae8-503c3d67265e.jpg?v=1767678167","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/the-stories-we-bring-back-margaret-atwood-on-myth-mortality-and-the-art-of-writing-9781967751785","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}