While a lot of fuss is made over Kate Middleton’s bouncy hair and seemingly endless stream of finely made outerwear, not everyone agrees that she’s a style icon. And among that “not everyone” is author Margaret Atwood.

Margaret Atwood, high priestess of an oracular temple deep in the digital Canadian woods, did a Reddit AMA Monday. It's great: she was asked all of the questions you might expect (Where do you see political dystopia today? What's your ~process~?) and some you might not (Who is your fictional boyfriend?). Read on…

A thousand spruce trees have just been planted in a forest near Oslo. In a century, the trees will be cut down and made into paper to print books that have never been read before. The project is called the Future Library, and Margaret Atwood has agreed to contribute the collection's first work.

Dang: HBO just greenlighted MaddAddam, an adaptation of Margaret Atwood's dystopian trilogy of genetic shenanigans/apocalyptic disaster that kicks off with Oryx and Crake. Even better, Darren Aronofsky (last seen drenching Russell Crowe and pissing off evangelicals with Noah) will be executive producer.

OMFG thank the mighty goddess that it is Friday. It is also Margaret Atwood's birthday. Did you know that she's on Twitter? In the interview above, she calls having followers on the social network "like having fairies in the bottom of your garden." Also celebrating birthdays: Christian Siriano, Fabolous, Chloë…

Is there anything Margaret Atwood doesn't do? She writes novels, she gives hockey advice, and now she draws these awesome superheroes inspired by her Twitter friends. Take that, Paniac!

"So what's it all about, this Twitter? Is it signaling, like telegraphs? Is it Zen poetry? [...] Let's just say it's communication, and communication is something human beings like to do." — Margaret Atwood. [Guardian]

This video proves what we've all long suspected — that The Mighty Ducks would have been way better if it starred Margaret Atwood. Next, could we have boxing tips from Joyce Carol Oates? [Salon]

This weekend the Guardian compiled lists of rules for writing by a variety of famous authors — the result is either fascinating or enraging, depending on how you feel about writing, lists, and advice.

"Anybody who writes a book is an optimist. First of all, they think they're going to finish it. Second, they think somebody's going to publish it. Third, they think somebody's going to read it." [CNN]

Ariel Levy recommends Andrea Dworkin's Heartbreak and Janet Malcolm's Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice. We'd like to add Hélène Cixous's "The Laugh of the Medusa" and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. You? [The New Yorker]

"Twitter isn't writing, it's signaling...It could be writing. In fact, I thought of doing something like John Cage's symphony that will be played over 100 years. You could put a word a day on to the 'twit', or 'tweet'?" [Reuters]

The Guardian is worried that "if Margaret Atwood isn't sure she is a feminist anymore," feminists might be "an endangered species." But Atwood's take on the f-word is more complicated than the Guardian implies — and so is ours.

Alice Munro has taken her new collection "Too Much Happiness" out of the running for Canada's prestigious Scotiabank Giller Prize, which she's won twice before - thereby ending literary nerds' hopes for a showdown with Margaret Atwood. [NYT]

• Pro-government militiaman Abbas Kargar Javid has been accused of murdering Neda Soltan, the young woman from Iran who became an international symbol after her death was shown on YouTube. The regime has yet to take action against Javid. •

Margaret Atwood's Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth is going to be made into a documentary. Sources say the film "will probe how the metaphor of indebtedness has shaped societies over time." [THR]

Margaret Atwood: "It's like everyone's blogging about how they brushed their teeth this morning." [NYT]