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An Alternate Reading of “Pride,” by Alice Munro

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , on April 21, 2011 | 1 Comment »

I am one of the many who think that Alice Munro deserves the Nobel Prize in Literature, so I am offering an alternate reading of “Pride” (Harper’s, April 2011), a short story, which is what Munro almost exclusively writes. “Pride” (a story John Madera discussed earlier on Big Other) is exemplary of her work, a [...]

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“Pride Goeth Before Destruction”: On Alice Munro’s “Pride”

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on March 15, 2011 | 15 Comments »

From what I’ve heard tell of it, Alice Munro’s stories are marked by their compassion, their empathy, their poignancy, by a verisimilitude that contains multitudes, by their Chekhovian echoes, their efflorescence of desire and yearning, their sad but expertly submerged subtexts, each one tinctured with regret or loss or betrayal, where paradox intertwines with surprise [...]

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Women on Men

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on March 10, 2010 | 17 Comments »

Recently I’ve gloried in the prose of some of my favorite female writers: Alice Munro, Paula Fox, Christine Schutt, Diane Williams, Kim Chinquee and Lydia Davis. The way they see men fascinates me. Here is an excerpt from Davis’ novel The End of the Story. The narrator is talking about a younger man she had [...]

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Show yourself!

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on February 4, 2010 | 12 Comments »

This is from Alec Soth’s blog:  It is interesting how the cover images affect our reading of the book. But equally influential is the author photograph. In discussing the under-appreciation of Alice Munro in the New York Times, Jonathan Franzen wrote, “her jacket photos show her smiling pleasantly, as if the reader were a friend, [...]

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