Click and type in a question or commentFan note: Came across your review of The Humbling in Powell's Review-A-Day and scanned it, as I do almost all reviews of books I haven't yet read. But I read the opening paragraph closely and can tell you that you've said -- especially "utterly compelling" -- exactly what I have tried to tell others what I like about Munro, who always surprises me by her power to make her characters' everyday experiences and everyday lives real.
Al Averbach
"There are a handful of writers I read not because of the stories they tell, or for their memorable characters, or for their ability to evoke a time or place, but because I really enjoy being inside their heads. Alice Munro is one of these writers--her characters are vividly real but not especially distinctive, and if you read a lot of her work, they all blur together. Things happen in her stories, but the plots feel secondary to how the narrator interprets them. And to be honest, if I had to choose a time and place to read about, rural 20th century Canada would not spring to mind. But I find Munro's work--almost every word of it--utterly compelling. It's because her stories are about what it's like to be in a particular mind, to have a particular consciousness. Her noticing, her interpreting, is always new and shocking and revelatory, and right and true."
just wanted to say thanks for reading the 13th egg. scott snyder
hey - sorry I scared you off of chicken paprika. didn't mean to. we're all just trying to set off a stink bomb in our little corner of the internets, in a disorganized way. please don't take the "eh" poem I wrote and apply it to the whole site - hah - love ward six, and come back to visit.
Rhian! Piano! Knitting! Hens? You've done so much since Montana. How are you and your three guys? I seem to have moved to New Jersey (very happily) and keep saying I'll drag my family to Ithaca for a weekend. One of these days... My best to everyone! -Sarah Davis, sdavis@klondikefive.com
Love the site, love JR's site. I'm just wondering if the idea has ever crossed your mind about writing a blog about your experiences with hen raising. I've raised ducks for the last four years, love them like they were my own children, so I'm interested in your bird caretaking adventures. Take care, —TLC
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Thanks for playing my piece. Like your site. AP
I'm having anxiety over the impending end of Afterlife - WRITE MORE, WRITE MORE, WRITE MORE! P.S. It was given to me by a friend who bought it at the dollar store, of all places, which inspires me in some strange way as a fellow writer - they seem to find their way somehow to hungry minds no matter where they're stashed.
I saw you read last night at the Little Gray Books lecture and you were outstanding. Why hadn't I heard of you before? -Heather M.
Did we go to high school together? I just picked up your book and recognized Lily Dale immediately! Laurel Zastrow, FHS 1986
Rhi Rhi- I am interested in purchasing a miniature french fry. I love your site. A
beep, beep, Rhian. beep, beep, Rhian. Beautiful site! Fascinating info, cool links. visitor 114-- The Real Sis
Words can hardly express how honored I am to be Visitor 29 to this esteemed site. Please send my official certificate of visitation quickly so I may frame it and hang it in a place of much dignity. Thank you.
I dig "Dwarves" big time, sis.
