Thanks to a comment from Petréa Mitchell on another post I discovered this somewhat old but fascinating podcast of a conversation between Ursula Le Guin and Margaret Atwood. Despite the chair of the event giving an introduction that causes Atwood to speculate that he wants to see a cat fight, the two ladies get on very well together. There is lots of good material, including Atwood talking about her friend Judith Merril, explaining why The Handmaid’s Tale is set in the Harvard English Department, and describing her favorite science fiction B-movie.

The recording does seem to be edited down extensively from the 2.5 hours that Petréa thinks the actual event took. Consequently we don’t seem to ever find out why we should be believing that Mr. Darcy appeared out of a lake, but other than everything appears to be very smooth.