End of the article is interesting: Atwood stated for the record that she's always been attacked more from the political left than from the right.

"I think the right thinks I'm irrelevant," Atwood said. "The left thinks that I should have been preaching their sermon, whatever it may happen to be, and that I am therefore a traitor for not having done that which they themselves would do."

Her response to that, she said, is unprintable.

"It involves a finger," Atwood said.