Margaret Atwood loves being an author, and – don’t get her wrong – she loves meeting her fans and hearing about how her books affected them. But the whirlwind nature of the modern book tour has been wearing on her lately, and as a result, she “is developing a remote autographing device that will allow authors to sign books for devoted readers from afar, without those awful tours writers often dread. No, it’s not clear whether she has spoken to Donald Rumsfeld lately.”