Book: Stone Mattress

by Feet Banks
July 1, 2019


Feet Banks
Feet Banks is a writer and (shitty) filmmaker from the…
Stone Mattress by Margaret Atwood
Book of the week: Canada Day edition. I like short stories because you crank out a good story in one session of reading and the format reinforces the golden secret of strong writing—start, middle, end.
Here are nine beauties from a Canadian legend. Few can lay down a line like Atwood, she manages to dance the line and find that perfect balance of darkness and hope in every scenario she invites us into.

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