Educators wonder how to teach writings of Alice Munro in wake of daughter's revelations
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Educators wonder how to teach writings of Alice Munro in wake of daughter's revelations

New Indian Express  

When Munro died in May at age 92, she was celebrated worldwide for narratives which documented rare insight into her characters' secrets, motivations, passions and cruelties, especially those of girls and women. A New York Times essay that ran shortly after her death, by Canadian author Sheila Heti, was titled "I Don't Write Like Alice Munro, But I Want to Live Like Her." At Western University in London, Ontario, Munro's alma mater, the school has posted a statement on its website saying that it was "taking time to carefully consider the impact" of the revelations. Since 2018, Western University has offered an Alice Munro Chair in Creativity, with a mission to "Lead the creative culture of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, serving as a mentor and a model." That chair, held for the past academic year by Heti, will be left unfilled as "we carefully consider Munro's legacy and her ties to Western," according to the school.

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Alice Munro dead: Canadian short story writer was 92
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LA Times  

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