thoughts on alice munro

For those of you living in a cave/under a rock/taking a news break and therefore don't know: Alice Munro recently died at age 92. Shortly thereafter, her daughter Andrea Skinner wrote publicly about sexual abuse by her stepfather (Munro’s second husband), and Alice’s failure to support her, or even acknowledge her daughter’s trauma.
     Full disclosure: despite being a short story writer and admirer, I’ve never been a huge Alice Munro fan. Of course, she undeniably has tremendous skill and has won every major literary award including the Nobel Prize for Literature (2013).

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