John Baker's Blog (Free subscription) | 18/12/2008
Because her writing style somehow, impossibly, apes the world in which our thoughts and impressions perform their acrobatics. The quiescent mind wanders imaginatively, and Munro's stories do the same thing. It's not that they are about experiences unknown, just the opposite. They are about everyday people in everyday situations, but she uses language to stir at their surfaces until all that...
Quillblog (Free subscription) | 15/12/2008
There’s a new Alice Munro short story in the latest New Yorker. The biennial fiction issue also includes work by Roberto Bolaño, Colson Whitehead, and Donald Antrim. The magazine has put several of the fiction pieces, including the Munro story, behind the online paywall, so you’ll have to shell out for the print copy. In other [...]
se71 (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
The Love Of A Good Woman - Alice Munro Book 30 in my 52 books in 52 weeks in 2008 I'm a bit behind in my reviews. This always means that the reviews I write are shorter, as it only...
<HTMLGIANT> (Free subscription) | yesterday
... chair, there’s a little table, where I keep some books—right now, it’s Amy Hempel, Joy Williams, Alice Munro, Diane Williams, Kyle Minor, Deb Olin Unferth, Allison Amend. Also: lit mags; a photo book of Borneo, where I was going to set a novel; my notebook; a story I’m revising; a box of cards from the Met; a newspaper article on Darwin and Russell Wallace; Poets & Writers; another...
A Writer's Desk (Free subscription) | 05/01/2009
The Millions runs down every short story published in The New Yorker last year, with a brief synopsis of each story. It's rather impressive, the list and the stories, with works by Alice Munro, Ha Jin, Annie Proulx, Roddy Doyle, Louise Erdrich, and many others.
Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 02/01/2009
... lists, authors scoring smaller advances than they would have in, say, 2006, and wage freezes. Alice Munro will release a new short story collection in the fall. (Derek Shapton/McClelland & Stewart)Related ArticlesRecent At the same time, writers will continue to write, recession or not. Lest we forget, The Maltese Falcon, The Grapes of Wrath, Such Is my Beloved, The Waves and Tender...
National Review Online (Free subscription) | 29/12/2008
Jay Nordlinger on George W. Bush, Alice Munro, Eartha Kitt, and more.
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 26/12/2008
Granted, no one is ready to show Alice Munro, Michael Ondaatje or Margaret Atwood the door just yet. Nor should they be. Atwood made her presence felt this year with an informative, provocative, entertaining and uncannily timely non-fiction title, Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth, to be followed in 2009 by a new novel. And Munro, after threatening retirement in 2006,...
TONY Blog (Free subscription) | 16/12/2008
... of theirs is like something from Raymond Carver, except less interesting. C “ Some Women ,” by Alice Munro: A little girl attends to a man dying from leukemia. She doesn’t always understand what she’s seeing, but remembers it all in vivid detail. Ugh. D+ “ Meeting with Enrique Lihn ,” by Roberto Bolaño: Bolaño isn’t exactly a state secret at this point, and this short piece doesn’t...
Largehearted Boy (Free subscription) | 15/12/2008
... Roses reunion tour news. The New Yorker's year-end issue features new fiction by Donald Antrim, Alice Munro, and an unpublished story by Robert Bolano. Amazon.com is selling the digital version of one of my favorite holiday albums, the 18-track Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas for $1.99. Pitchfork lists the 100 best tracks of 2008. Format Magazine recreates classic hip-hop album...
The mental_floss Blogs (Free subscription) | 10/12/2008
Everyone’s got a routine, especially people who make a living writing or painting or doing some other kind of self-directed creative activity; you’ve got to provide the mind a structured space in which to be free. A fascinating new blog called Daily Routines examines just that — how writers, artists and other interesting people organize their days. Let’s take a look at a few examples. Alice...
Quillblog (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
Over at The Guardian, Rawi Hage’s De Niro’s Game, Joseph Boyden’s Through Black Spruce, and Alice Munro’s short-story collection Carried Away, were mentioned as some of the best books of 2008. Publishing big-wigs have had to cut their lavish lunches — but their wardrobe expenses won’t be next. At least, not according to this video at [...]
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
... imagination, taste and accomplishments. "I've read The Magic Mountain ," it says, and "I love Alice Munro." ... The other approach views a book collection less as a testimony to the past than as a repository for the future; it's where you put the books you intend to read. In the Hunter/Gatherer scheme of book buying , I am a Gatherer, so I think my own bookshelf reflects all the books...
Toronto Sun - News (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
... to Canadian literature entitled Go-Boy! Memories of a Life Behind Bars. Famed Canadian author Alice Munro had won the fiction category that same year for her Who Do You Think You Are? Roger Caron knew who he was then. He was 39 years old, Canada's most famous bank robber and escape artist and, with 23 of those years having been spent in prison, he had crossed a personal Rubicon to...
Bookninja (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
... imagination, taste and accomplishments. “I’ve read ‘The Magic Mountain,’ ” it says, and “I love Alice Munro.” For others, especially those with literary careers, a personal library can be “emotional and totemic,” in the words of the agent Ira Silverberg. Books become stand-ins for friends and clients. Silverberg cherishes the copy of Céline given to him when he was 19 by William Burroughs,...
