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☆ Opinion | What Alice Munro Would Never Do
  + stars: | 2024-05-15 | by ( Sheila Heti | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
It is common to say “I was heartbroken to hear” that so-and-so died, but I really do feel heartbroken having learned about Alice Munro, who died on Monday. She has long been a North Star for many writers and was someone I have always felt guided by. We are very different writers, but I have kept her in mind, daily and for decades, as an example to follow (but failed to follow to the extent that she demonstrated it): that a fiction writer isn’t someone for hire. A fiction writer isn’t someone who can write anything — movies, articles, obits! She isn’t a person in service to the magazines, to the newspapers, to the publishers or even to her audience.
Persons: Alice Munro, isn’t Organizations: Star
☆ Alice Munro, Nobel Prize winner and ‘master of the short story,’ dies aged 92
  + stars: | 2024-05-14 | by ( Yahya Salem | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +6 min
CNN —Alice Munro, the Nobel Literature Prize winner best known for her mastery of short stories and depictions of womanhood in rural settings, has died in Ontario, Canada, at the age of 92. The news was confirmed to CNN “with great sadness” by a spokesperson at her publisher, Penguin Random House. It largely sets the tone for Munro’s prose; semi-autobiographical in nature and exploring the universality of the human urge for self-discovery, love, and independence, through the mundanity of everyday life in small, rural communities. Alice Munro, left, and Margaret Atwood at the National Arts Club in February 2005. Munro’s mastery of short stories and literature has been lauded by many of her contemporaries.
Persons: Alice Munro, Munro, “, Emily Brontë, Charles Dickens, Lucy Maud Montgomery, ”, ” Stephen Pearson, James Munro, Catherine, Eudora Welty, Flannery O’Connor, Carson McCullers, —, General’s, ” Munro, Margaret Atwood, Atwood, Diane Bondareff, James Wood Organizations: CNN, Penguin Random, “ The Paris, Guardian, Fairfax Media, University of Western, CBC, Yorker, National Arts Club, Literature Locations: Ontario, Canada, Wingham , Ontario, ”, University of Western Ontario, Vancouver, Victoria, Canadian, Russian
☆ Alice Munro, a Literary Alchemist Who Made Great Fiction From Humble Lives
  + stars: | 2024-05-14 | by ( Gregory Cowles | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
The last story in her last book evoked her mother’s death. Does it seem reductive or limiting to derive a kind of artist’s statement from the title of that early book? Munro was hardly a doctrinaire feminist, but with implacable authority and command she demonstrated throughout her career that the lives of girls and women were as rich, as tumultuous, as dramatic and as important as the lives of men and boys. For a writer whose book titles gestured repeatedly at love (“The Progress of Love,” “The Love of a Good Woman,” “Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage”), her narratives recoiled from sentimentality. You got the feeling that, if the GPS ever offered her a shorter route, she would decline.
Persons: Alice Munro, Munro, “, ”, Rose, Del Jordan, —, gestured Organizations: “ Boys, Yorker, GPS Locations: Ontario, Lake Huron
☆ Alice Munro, Nobel Laureate and Master of the Short Story, Dies at 92
  + stars: | 2024-05-14 | by ( Anthony Depalma | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Her family announced the death, at a care home, to the Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail. A representative of her publisher, Penguin Random House Canada, said Ms. Munro died in Port Hope, on Lake Ontario, east of Toronto, The Associated Press said. Ms. Munro was a member of the rare breed of writer, like Katherine Anne Porter and Raymond Carver, who made their reputations in the notoriously difficult literary arena of the short story, and did so with great success. Ms. Munro’s stories were widely considered to be without equal, a mixture of ordinary people and extraordinary themes. She portrayed small-town folks, often in rural southwestern Ontario, facing situations that made the fantastic seem an everyday occurrence.
Persons: Alice Munro, Munro, Katherine Anne Porter, Raymond Carver Organizations: Canadian, Globe, Penguin Random House, The Associated Press Locations: Ontario, Penguin Random House Canada, Port Hope, Lake Ontario, Toronto
☆ Author Sarah Bernstein Wins Canadian Fiction Prize for Her Novel 'Study of Obedience'
  + stars: | 2023-11-13 | by ( Associated Press | Nov. | At P.M. | ) www.usnews.com   time to read: +1 min
TORONTO (AP) — Author Sarah Bernstein won the Scotiabank Giller Prize on Monday for her novel “Study for Obedience.”The Montreal-born, Scotland-based author accepted the $100,000 award remotely from Scotland, where she had a baby just 10 days ago. Her novel is about a young woman moving to the remote north where after her arrival, a series of inexplicable events occur. The 100,000 Canadian dollar ($72,000 U.S.) Giller prize honors the best in Canadian fiction. Political Cartoons View All 1244 ImagesThe celebrations were also interrupted early in the broadcast when several anti-Israel protesters jumped onstage. The Giller was created in 1994 by late businessman Jack Rabinovitch in memory of his late wife, literary journalist Doris Giller.
Persons: Sarah Bernstein, Giller, Margaret Atwood, Mordecai Richler, Alice Munro, Jack Rabinovitch, Doris Giller Organizations: TORONTO, Scotiabank, Israel Locations: Montreal, Scotland, Israel
☆ Some of the Books That Hernan Diaz Owns Surprise Even Him
  + stars: | 2023-05-18 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +3 min
Scott, Deborah Eisenberg, Paul Yoon, Ottessa Moshfegh, Michael Ondaatje, Louise Erdrich, Colson Whitehead, Sigrid Nunez, Jean Strouse, Lorrie Moore. The novel contains four different books, written by different fictional authors in disparate genres and styles. “Trust” closes with a personal diary that is also a sort of a prose poem and a love letter to modernism. While writing this, I read and revisited authors as different as Jean Rhys, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Dawn Powell, Theodor Adorno and Gertrude Stein. Wodehouse section of my library and can report that I’ve read 29 of his books.
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