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An interview is provided with the Canadian novelist and poet Margaret Atwood. When asked about whether she reads the reviews of the books that she writes, she comments on her office's collecting reviews from Great Britain, Canada and the U.S. Atwood comments on the appreciation of her novel "The Edible Woman" in Canada. When asked about the role gender that plays in book reviewing, she mentions the lack of requests to review books by men authors in her early career.

Focuses on the metaphorical use of geographical maps of Toronto, Ontario in the fiction novels of Margaret Atwood. Assessment on the geographical precision of the fiction; Adaptation of the oppressive quality of mapping; Explication on the literal and metaphorical use of mapped places.