December 2008
5 posts
Alice Munro is Kind Of Boring, Yeah?
I imagine that if Alice Munro were a painter, she would paint landscapes. Her finished canvases would look clear and precise as photographs - that is, they would look real - fields with apparent patches of crabgrass; subtle weeds poking up in flower beds; a river winding into the distance, its surface spotted with dead, floating fish.
Like her stories, her paintings would be perfect in terms of...
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Bubbie, The 4'10" Professor
When people ask what religion I am - an occurrence whose frequency seems to sextuple in December - I usually answer with a stock phrase: “Well, my grandparents are Jewish,” I say. “And my parents sometimes are.”
Typically this gets the precise groan/laugh combo perfectly suited to ending the conversation and moving on to the next topic, often something food-related....
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