/lit/ - Literature

>>21569700
Not that I know.

>>21569700
Shill thread. Stop posting, attorney for Munro’s estate

>>21569708
Pfffft, one or two little Munro threads anon, big deal. Maybe she'll catch on here!

>Canadian woman writing mostly about woman shit

whole lot of red flags. youre gonna have to do a whole hell of a lot more than you are doing in this thread to sell this stuff. id be interested to see if you can explain why it has merit

>>21569748
Sure. Tell me the Alice Munro story you've read that you'd like to discuss
>Uh I haven't read any
Well dozens are available online in the New Yorker archives so just pick one and get back to me in 30 minutes to an hour!
https://lithub.com/25-alice-munro-stories-you-can-read-online-right-now/
I would recommend Runaway or The View From Castle Rock, the latter containing less woman shit than most of her stories.

>>21569748
If you can find My Mothers Dream online read that. It's very powerful all the way through.

>>21569771
it was the simplest request imaginable for someone making threads on a literal literature discussion forum, and you still failed. why did you even make this thread if you weren't prepared to even try?

>>21569785
If you haven't read a single word of the author being discussed what do you expect me to say to you? Why don't you go read one single short story and then see if you like it?

>>21569785
>>21569788
You obviously want her to be bad so just read one of the ones I listed as a 10 and tell me why you think it sucked. I'll be here to tell you how you're wrong. Or maybe you'll love it immediately. She's very very good.

>>21569788
do you literally not even comprehend what I asked you? lol.

>>21569798
She has merit for being the best short fiction writer of all time.
>b-but what does best mean... sell me on best
I can't do that anon. You're going to have to... *gulp* read.

>>21569797
youre joking right? I very very obviously want it to be not bad, which is why im asking you to sell me on it. im not wasting time reading something with that many red flags without more information

>>21569798
>I want to be spoon-fed!
Why are you even in this thread?

>>21569806
wow very meaningful and insightful. i will now be leaving your thread. goodnight.

>>21569808
why are you samefagging so hard?

>>21569807
>>21569812
See you later weird moron. I was really hoping you'd read her too so I'd have someone to discuss it with :*(

>>21569812
good riddance

>>21569806
There are no standards left.

>>21569822
>t. has never read her

>>21569822
What do you mean?

>>21569700
>modern literature
peddle your goyslop elsewhere

>>21569807
>wins the Nobel prize
>BBBUUUUT DYLAN WON IT, ITS A FAKE PRIIIIIIIZE
He's worth checking out too honestly.

>>21569838
>Noone who has read a single story will ever reply to my thread
:*( I want lit anons to say things about her stories they have read

>>21569845
try reddit

>>21569845
I'm reading one of her stories tomorrow. Will make a thread to discuss it.
>>21569860
Fuck off.

>>21569860
No. But maybe if I spam her enough here I can get Runaway to become a lit meme book like Dunces that everyone reads ^.^

What do you think?

>>21569865
Which one? Is it for a class of some kind?

I find the anti-Munro shitposter and the Munro Bandwagoner (Not OP) equally harmfull to the discussion of her work.

>>21569871
To discuss it with you, silly.

>>21569887
Well tell me which one I can read it too. A lot of her stuff sort of blurs around in NY memory and I don't know the titles of a lot of the stories lol

>>21569894
I'm thinking Runaway, what do you think?

>>21569900
I think it's probably your best bet. She has a lot of subgenres such as stories which deal heavily with her mother or her upbringing which are very good but sort of dour and a lot of people complain nothing happens or there's no point. The stories in Runaway contain a lot of shocking twists and events.

she won the nobel so all the pseuds have been mindwiped into thinking shes better than Papa
what a joke.
sage btw

>>21569700
She's good, but I found her a little boring. What I read from her showed no particular sense for the absurd, the comical, the surreal, or the metaphysical. She writes like a very emphatic and clever social worker. Full of understanding for people's problems and mishaps, but somehow very constrained by what this world of daily human affairs has conditioned us to believe is reality. But reality doesn't seem as realistic to me as her stories seem to suggest.

>>21570559
Also, I felt like her stories were somehow charisma-less. With great writers you get a sense of who they are. You feel in contact with their true self or personality. With her I felt like her writing is so selfless that she almost neutralized her own subjectivity.

>>21569784
>Powerful
That's always a funny way to describe something.

>>21569884
I find that dickriders are worse that shit flingers. The fanb9ys that are overly positive and spam threads will just make people dislike that author/book. It's pretty funny desu.

>>21569817
why bother if the writer is literally so bad you have nothing good to say about them? you could have simply picked some of the "10/10" stories you mentioned and talked about why the themes and characters or prose or whatever appeal to you. then maybe some people might have read them and came back to discuss them. instead all you can do is sperg out at me when I literally did nothing but ask you about the writer you are shilling out of sincere curiosity

>>21569806
>the best short fiction writer of all time.
slit your throat friend.