Alice Munro

Alice Munro
Happiness Is Reading Alice Munro
by
Lynn Henriksen
Alice Munro is one of the few authors I have read who so artfully relates the throes of the human condition through her characters' active and reactive thoughts revolving around people with whom they are intimate and others whom they've simply met on their path through life. Having just devoured Too Much Happiness, Munro's book of short stories, I am reeling from the power of her words.
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id=5621249 - Dec 27, 2010
"Away From Her" - A Review
by
Leslie Halpern
Among the many wonderful independent spotlight films in this year's Florida Film Festival, "Away From Her" stands out as an exceptionally tender tale of loving, aging, and suffering with dignity. Directed by Canadian actress Sarah Polley and based on the short story "The Bear Came Over the Mountain" by Alice Munro, the movie introduces an aging couple married for almost 50 years. Fiona (Julie Christie) shows symptoms of progressing Alzheimer's disease and her husband Grant (Gordon Pinsent) is faced with the difficult decision of whether or not to place her in a permanent care facility.
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id=506209 - Mar 28, 2007
Away From Her
by
Priyankar Bhunia
This movie is nothing short of a minor marvel. It deftly captures the essence of its difficult source material.
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id=929605 - Jan 15, 2008
Delving Into Diversity Part Two - Novels That Foster Discussions of Diversity and Identity
by
James Guilford
The article includes titles and summaries of novels that can help your group discuss diversity and identity issues. Included in this article are novel titles, authors, and brief summaries. Use these novels in class or workshops.
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id=3342690 - Nov 28, 2009
The Redeeming and Liberating Power of Literature - Part 1
by
Ugur Akinci
True, serious, honest literature can liberate us from our chains and bonds and redeem the dignity and wholeness of a life that gets squandered in so many shopping trips to the mall, and so many idle days and nights spent in meaningless work and watching all that drivel on the tube.
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id=492671 - Mar 17, 2007
Book Review - "Reading Like a Writer," by Francine Prose
by
Lisa Silverman
A review of Francine Prose's recent bestselling book for both writers and lovers of literature. In it, she discusses how reading fiction more carefully can enhance the experience and help writers learn from other writers.
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id=535057 - Apr 20, 2007
Eight For 0'Eight
by
Tammi Ree
With over 500 plus films released so far this year, it would be a difficult task for even the most die hard of film buffs to catch even half of these. Other than perhaps esteemed Chicago Sun Times film critic Roger Ebert - who would want to?
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id=903049 - Dec 30, 2007
The First Forty to Fifty Years Were Just a Dress Rehearsal
by
Elizabeth Cassidy
CELEBRATE. First of all, celebrate all you have accomplished in your life. Plan a party for 100 of your closest friends or just for yourself. Set a nice table, light some scented candles, put on some rock n' roll music and turn the volume way up.
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id=1056812 - Mar 19, 2008
Debunking the Myth of Show and Tell
by
Marciano Guerrero
Although Lubbock's book The Craft of Fiction is seldom read today, the aphorism "show, don't tell" remains unchallenged. But what was fresh and novel then has become a new orthodoxy, an orthodoxy that has to be challenged regardless of the authority it exerts and the vast popularity and acceptance is has gained.
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id=3851951 - Mar 01, 2010
How to Channel Your Writing Voice
by
Tom R Bentley
I was thinking of the issue of "voice" in writing recently: you know, your writing voice, that whiff of brimstone or reverberant cello note or cracked teeth and swollen tongue that stamps your writing as having been issued from you alone. You'd never mistake Donald Barthelme for Ernest Hemingway; the word blossoms gathered in Virginia Woolf's garden would have flowers not found in the window-box plantings of Joan Didion.
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