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If you lived wholly online and never talked to real people, you’d imagine there are only two camps: Those who can forgive any artist’s sins and take the art on its own terms as if it were shot from some cannon on Mt. When news broke this week of Alice Munro remaining with the man who’d sexually abused her daughter …
When Alice Munro, who died Monday, won the Nobel Prize for literature in 2013, some saw it as the Swedish Academy stooping to validate a certain kind of fiction often dismissed as “the New Yorker short story”: quiet, realistic, domestic in focus, and with little in the way of conventional plot. Munro belonged to that handful of short story writers …
