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Largehearted Boy (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
The Independent profiles Florence Welch and her band, Florence and the Machine. The San Francisco Chronicle reviews Alice Munro's new short story collection, Too Much Happiness. Her canvas may be small, but her brush strokes are fine, her vision encompasses...
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Like many of the characters in Too Much Happiness, the 11th collection of stories by Alice Munro, Bruce Crozier finds pleasure in unexpected places.
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Too Much Happiness Stories By Alice Munro (Alfred A. Knopf; 304 pages; $25.95) Alice Munro has done it again. Now nearing 80, the Canadian author - winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize - keeps getting better. For five decades, Munro has written...
New York Post (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Widely regarded as one of the greatest living writers in the English language, Alice Munro has drawn comparisons to Joyce and Chekov. At 78, she remains remarkably, thankfully, prolific — this year, she was awarded the Man Booker Prize for her lifeti...
Washington Post (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
TOO MUCH HAPPINESS By Alice Munro Knopf. 304 pp. $25.95
The Kindle Reader (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Each week Entertainment Weekly reviews a small selection of popular new books. Titles available for the Kindle reviewed in the November 20th issue include: Last Words , by George Carlin with Tony Hendra. Free Press. MEMOIR. EW's slant: "...at turns biting and touching and often both". Amazon customer rating: 5 stars (6 reviews). Kindle edition $12.95. Text-to-Speech: Enabled. "As one...
Dystel & Goderich Literary Management (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
by Rachel In an interview in today’s Wall Street Journal , Alice Munro talks about why she’s attracted to writing short fiction. “I used to write novels and I didn’t get anywhere,” she says. She then goes on to say that she’s now writing “some halfway in between sort of thing.” Well, I love those halfway in between sort of things Munro writes. I’ve...
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Kate Pullinger, this year's winner of the Governor General's Award for Fiction, never imagined claiming her first big literary prize in a competition that also included short story master Alice Munro and rising fiction star Annabel Lyon.
Adam Smith's Lost Legacy (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Michael Robbins writes in digital emunction (“ I refer to largesse in thought HERE : “ Best books of the year. A mug, a game. Benjamin Schwarz predictably plumps for biographies & Alice Munro, while Amazon readers appear to be, in Adam Smith’s words, “as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become . . . not only incapable of relishing or bearing...
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
"No way this could be seen as probable or possible, unless you think of a blow between the eyes, a sudden calamity," muses the narrator of "Fiction," one of the 10 masterly stories that make up Alice Munro's latest collection, "Too Much Happiness." "The stroke of fate that leaves a man a cripple, the wicked joke that turns clear eyes into blind stones." It sounds...
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Reading an Alice Munro short story is like sinking into a reverie. She expertly captures the shadings and byways of associative thought. The Canadian then shapes these interior tangents so they have the intuitive feel of a dream without a dream’s seeming randomness. In the title story of “Too Much Happiness,” Munro’s newest collection, a character thinks to herself:...
Literary Thunder Bay (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
What a time for great new books! A quick trip to Chapters and I am writing my list and not even checking it twice. Here is an even dozen.Last Night at Twisted River by the great John IrvingToo Much Happiness by Alice Munro, best short story writer in the world.Nine Dragons by Michael Connelly. A police procedural, Connelly sends his L.A. detective to AsiaThe Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
Isak (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
While I grow weary of articles that keep 'rediscovering' the short story, it's nice to see masters of the form elevated in The Wall Street Journal today. Lydia Davis, Alice Munro, and Elizabeth Strout all get nods, along with Kurt Vonnegut's newly published collection of stories. More originally, the article spotlights new champions of short fiction, including Five Chapters, which publishes a story...
Slog (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Seriously. Over on Line Out , Megan Seling has information about how you can win free VIP passes to this year's Genius Awards at the Moore Theatre on Friday November 13th. And Eric Grandy tells you why They Live! will kick your ass at the party. They Live! are only one quarter of the musical entertainment, though: There will also be sets by U.S.F., Throw Me the Statue , and Emerald City Soul Club....
Quillblog (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Alice Munro’s short story, “Dimensions,” which appears in her recent collection Too Much Happiness, is one that the author herself cannot reread. In the story, a blue-collar B.C. father suffocates his three young children with a pillow while his wife is away. What makes this story even more unsettling is its resemblance to the 2008 criminal murder trial [...]
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