her short stories are marvellous, though, as are the novels i've read, esp. 'life before man' and 'surfacing.' 'lady oracle' is nice, but not essential. i am still waiting to read 'cat's eye.'
― derrick (derrick), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 08:56 (seventeen years ago) link
Thanks for posting the link, Mecha-ant, I could swear I'd been looking for a way of searching the New Yorker archive before, but was unable to find it. Of course, now I see there's a search bar on the front page, so either it's a recent addition, or I should feel very embarrassed indeed.
― Øystein (Øystein), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 10:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― Øystein (Øystein), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 10:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― A Giant Mechanical Ant (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 17:23 (seventeen years ago) link
Cat's Eye is lovely. Life Before Man and Surfacing have charms as well. She's also done some neat things with poems.
Munro has never grabbed me but it's possible I haven't read the right things.
― The Mad Puffin (The Mad Puffin), Thursday, 12 October 2006 17:15 (seventeen years ago) link
atwood frustrated?
― nostormo, Thursday, 10 October 2013 12:05 (ten years ago) link
haha I would imagine not? it's funny that Munro and Atwood get lumped together because Canadian but I see few similarities otherwise... I've always thought Atwood and Iain Banks were more of the same cloth
― you and me against the board (flamboyant goon tie included), Thursday, 10 October 2013 12:38 (ten years ago) link
she's hiding it well on Twitter if she is frustrated.
― woof, Thursday, 10 October 2013 12:52 (ten years ago) link
Oh wow, amazing! I never even considered this for some reason.
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 10 October 2013 12:54 (ten years ago) link
Atwood on Munro:
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/oct/10/alice-munro-nobel-literature-prize-margaret-atwood
― Lover (Eazy), Saturday, 12 October 2013 00:40 (ten years ago) link
fuckin write a novel alice
― mookieproof, Saturday, 9 April 2022 03:22 (two years ago) link