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I'm not a fan of cancelling things, but this is a case where the artist had full knowledge of a crime against her own child, and not only chose to ignore it, but also chose to [i]use it as fodder for her art[/i].

Munro wrote a story about a wife whose husband is a child molester and the trace to her own life is so clear. But she clearly didn't write it to process things in advance of dumping him and working to help her child heal; she wrote it...why, exactly, I can't know, but she used her daughter's trauma for story fodder. While she also knowingly turned away from helping her own child. And looked away from the knowledge that her husband had "friendships" -- Munro's own word -- with other children too.

I don't see how anyone could read her writing now except with profoundest disgust and anger that such vaunted, lauded talent was paired with complete, bone-deep amorality.

Yes, we're often told we should separate art from artist, but the fact that she used the idea of a wife's response to a child molester husband in even a single story -- that seems so heartless and utterly dissociated from her child's real-world pain. It's just vile. [/quote]

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