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.

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Anonymous wrote:Horrible to read.... especially as someone who experienced something similar from my own mother.

But yes, I will still read her. I can still enjoy the art even if the artist is problematic/horrible in their personal life. Plan to reread some of my favorite short stories of hers with this information in mind, it's pretty interesting perspective.

Thank you for this breath of sanity. It is possible to separate the art from the artist.

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.

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Anonymous wrote:Horrible to read.... especially as someone who experienced something similar from my own mother.

But yes, I will still read her. I can still enjoy the art even if the artist is problematic/horrible in their personal life. Plan to reread some of my favorite short stories of hers with this information in mind, it's pretty interesting perspective.

Thank you for this breath of sanity. It is possible to separate the art from the artist.

I don't care how old this post is but the posts above are disgusting. You are both vile, terrible people. Vile.

Her writing was boring.

Anonymous wrote:I heard rumblings of character problems with her a decade ago when I was doing an MFA in creative writing. Nothing definite, but this does not surprise me.

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.

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Anonymous wrote:I can not imagine being so weak minded that I'd consider sexual abuse between a child and a grown man "none of my business".

It's absolutely monstrous. There are many many men out there she could have found companionship with. But to ignore the horror your kid lived through to choose that man? Disgusting.

Yes exactly. I wish she had gone public with this before her stepdad and mom died though.

I wish people had listened to her, because she tried!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/07/09/alice-munro-colleagues-abuse/

Wouldn't his conviction been public? that is what I don't get. That had to make the papers somewhere, even just locally? No one outside the family knew? The committee for Nobel doesn't do background research?

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.