Alice Munro

[rich]

my better half presses drunks Scotsmen and yardie-type jamaican writers on me

after those someone like Munro sounds more and more appealing

On 5/28/09, malignd at aol.com <malignd at aol.com> wrote:
> She's really not a New Yorker writer, although her stories do appear there.
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> I had had her pressed on me from time to time and, when I I would inquire
> about her work, was told she was a Canadian woman who wrote short stories,
> mostly about Canadian women.  And -- oh; great -- that would be that.
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> Then my wife was reading what was at the time her most recent book --
> Runaway -- and she started pressing her on me, so I complied, read the book,
> then went straight through another seven or eight collections, each as good
> as the next.  She's masterly, a really great talent, and that, combined with
> Woman and Canadian, makes me think she's been high on the Swedes' short list
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> And my experience leads me to push her on people who I think might otherwise
> ignore her.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
> To: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
> Cc: malignd at aol.com; pynchon-l at waste.org
> Sent: Thu, 28 May 2009 11:27 am
> Subject: Re: Alice Munro
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> i don't denigrate
> i'm just not enthralled by that new yorker type fare
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> On 5/28/09, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Never read her, so I wouldn't know.
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>> On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 9:50 AM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> snooze
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