Alice Munro
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Anonymous
Look at the posts on the prior pages. There are so many people that don’t care under the guise of separating the art from the artist. Or as others have pointed out, her biographer. |
Anonymous
What did you hear? Very curious to know. (I was in an MFA program and know you get the inside scoop a lot if times). She always came off as a cipher in interviews and feature articles. I reread one that Daphne Merkin wrote about her. She comes off as person with nothing interesting about her and not a deep thinker. She gives no insights into her process or art. She was supposed to be extremely private. Merkin describes her house and garden and it sounds very average and boring. I mean, nothing against that but the described house revealed nothing of her life or career and she said she still worked at the kitchen table. That detail seemed performative to me at the time and more so now. She liked to garden; very average stuff to want others to focus on for a writer of her caliber. She was considered one of the best writers in the world at that time. No one like that is really a Susy Homemaker. I liked her work so always read whatever I could about her, but never felt like I learned anything and she was sort of relentlessly average which is ridiculous when yiu examine it. Now it seems like she was probably just driven and focused on her career above all, and didn't care about anyone. She was also supposedly a feminist. She didn't extend that beyond how the definition served her. |
Anonymous
| Her writing was boring. |
Anonymous
I don't care how old this post is but the posts above are disgusting. You are both vile, terrible people. Vile. |
Anonymous
Breath of sanity? You are azzes. Munro blamed the 9 year old child - her daughter. Her pedophile dh blamed the 9 year old child. The pedophile admitted what he did and threatened to kill the daughter if she went to the police. Munro blamed the child. No one supported Andrea. There is no way to separate this from her art. Her art is shite stained like she is. I've never supported book burning but if I owned a single scrap of her work I would be outside burning it right now. ' What evil, disgusting, selfish vermin. |
Anonymous
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A lot of artists are messed up. It’s often the nature of the beast. But there’s messed up and MESSED UP. This is the latter. I’m okay with focusing on others who are more acceptable messes.
I don’t love her stories. She’s a good writer. There are lots of good writers. |