SOURCE: “Of Bimbos and Men's Bodies,” in The Washington Post Book World, Vol. 25, No. 3, January 8, 1995, p. 3.

In the following review, Le Guin provides a favorable assessment of Good Bones and Simple Murders.

If you know any writers or would-be writers, give them this little book, with a bookmark at the piece called “The Page.” In a couple of hundred words it says more than all the dozens of how-to-write books say about the act of writing, the reality of it.

Margaret Atwood knows a lot about reality. Too much, maybe. She scares people. She doesn't respect the institutions of our civilization or the tender feelings of her readers. There is something uncanny in her insights. Could it be that there really are witches? She seems to know so much about them:

“Hell, I used to have breasts! Not just two. Lots. Ever wonder why a third tit was...