Trevor and Betsy review Alice Munro’s “The Bear Came Over the Mountain,” republished in this weeks issue of The New Yorker on the occasion of Munro’s winning the Nobel Prize! Read the full post.
NYRB Classics published their edition of Stoner in June of 2006, and it is the book we’ll be talking about in Episode 9 of The Mookse and the Gripes Podcast. In 1965, John Williams published Stoner, a novel about a professor of English named William Stoner, a relatively nondescript person whom no one will remember
Jordan Davis’s “Kale” was first published in the October 14, 2013 issue of The New Yorker and is available here for subscribers. Betsy In a review in “The Constant Critic” (here), Jordan Davis writes: Just as there are not that many ways to feel truly satisfied, there are not that many serious subjects for poetry. (Sorry.)
I was beyond thrilled this morning when I woke to find that Alice Munro has won the Nobel Prize for Literature. She becomes the first Canadian to do so (if you don’t count Saul Bellow, who moved to the USA when he was nine and is considered a US winner). I believe she is also
This post is part of a series dedicated to Sherwood Anderson: Collected Stories, from The Library of America. “Adventure” comes from Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio. For an introduction to this series and for links to the other posts, please click here. In almost every Winesburg, Ohio story so far, the central character has had an “adventure,”
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