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Alice Munro

Can we really separate art and the artist?

July 22, 2024 by Nathan Bransford

News emerged in the past few weeks that distressed a lot of literary fans. As I detailed in last week’s entry of This Week in Books: The late Alice Munro’s daughter Andrea Robin Skinner published an essay about how Munro stood by Skinner’s stepfather even after he admitted to sexually abusing Skinner. Nearly as distressing as […]

Filed Under: Culture Tagged With: Alice Munro, Chinatown, Joyce Carol Oates

A.I. comes for the book world (This week in books)

July 12, 2024 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! First up, some very distressing news regarding two famous authors. The late Alice Munro’s daughter Andrea Robin Skinner published an essay about how Munro stood by Skinner’s stepfather even after he admitted to sexually abusing Skinner. Nearly as distressing as that, all of this was more or less an open secret among […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: A.I., Alice Munro, Andrea Long Chu, Andrew Schenker, Caspar David Friedrichs, Cassandra Jenkins, Elisabeth Egan, Emily Henry, Fitzcarraldo Editions, Grayson Haver Currin, Inkitt, Jacques Testard, John Grisham, Kate McKean, Neil Gaiman, R.O. Kwon, Rachel Cusk, Rebecca Ackermann, Rebecca Mead, Ryan Lackey, Zachary Fine

A master of short stories passes away (This week in books)

May 17, 2024 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! First up, in honor of their 10th Anniversary, the wonderful organization We Need Diverse Books is having an auction with tons of great items, services, and meet and greets up for bid, including a query critique and thirty minute chat with yours truly. Bid bid bid! Alice Munro, one of the great […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Ali Sethi, Alice Munro, Ben Dolnick, Deborah Treisman, Jamaica Kincaid, Kara Walker, We Need Diverse Books

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