Michael Ondaatje has been interviewed by Scrivener twice. Scrivener spoke with Ondaatje in 1993, a year after his Booker Prize win, and in 2009, sixteen years later. The two interviews with one of Canada’s greatest writers, never before available online, are published together here.

In 1984, Scrivener’s Ting Chang spoke with Margaret Atwood. They discussed personality in fiction, the dawn of the computer age, and Canadian arts funding. The Handmaid’s Tale was to be published the following year.

In 1997, Scrivener spoke with Anne Carson on the telephone. On the heels of her 1996 Lannan Literary Prize win, Carson discussed anthropology, Heidegger, fragments of classical manuscripts, James Laughlin, and patronage in Canadian arts.