“Free Radicals” Alice Munro

2017-07-25T11:22:36-04:00

As one of the shorter stories in this volume, I was inclined, at first pass, to presume it was a simpler story. Its ending seemed to underscore this impression. Without going into detail, the story has the kind of resolution which could serve as the sole focus of discussion, in terms

“Free Radicals” Alice Munro2017-07-25T11:22:36-04:00

“Deep-Holes” Alice Munro

2017-07-25T11:22:19-04:00

So many of the risks in "Deep-Holes" are either averted or declared meaningless. "Sally packed devilled eggs—something she hated to take on a picnic, because they were so messy." Nobody ate the devilled eggs anyway, so it didn't matter how messy they were. "Ham sandwiches, crab salad, lemon tarts—also a

“Deep-Holes” Alice Munro2017-07-25T11:22:19-04:00

“Wenlock Edge” Alice Munro

2017-07-25T11:20:49-04:00

1648 Henfryn Street and 363 Carlisle Street: "Wenlock Edge" feels so vivid that one can hardly resist keying in the significant addresses to see what appears on the digital map. These addresses do not actually exist in London, Ontario. But there is a Henfryn Line which runs north-south, just east of Clinton, Ontario. And

“Wenlock Edge” Alice Munro2017-07-25T11:20:49-04:00

“Fiction” Alice Munro

2017-07-25T11:22:47-04:00

Is it something like a triangle? With happiness, unhappiness and love arranged with an equal distance between each point? Perhaps. Certainly there are triangles in "Fiction", shifting alliances and fractures. Love triangles. Happiness triangles. Just enough. Too much. The kind of happiness discussed in "Fiction" is different from that which

“Fiction” Alice Munro2017-07-25T11:22:47-04:00

“Dimensions” Alice Munro

2017-07-25T11:23:59-04:00

Things that you can slip between. They are often 'new' in nature. Perspectives transform. If I was playing $30,000 Pyramid, I might think such things, in response to the idea of 'dimensions'. At the heart of Alice Munro's "Dimensions": a woman who is fundamentally altered, facing a 'new' future, slipping

“Dimensions” Alice Munro2017-07-25T11:23:59-04:00
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