At The Ladies Finger, you can catch me chortling over Munro's win
In Munro’s writing, generations live and breathe and die in the span of a few pages. Her short stories are celebrated for achieving what novels are charged with achieving and yet rarely do. They are celebrated for lighting up the landscape of our minds and our times. The contemporary novel – that unbearably bloated creation which confuses its desires with its ideas (think Franzen and Freedom) – has nothing on Munro or her form... full story here
Mridula Koshy is the author of Not Only The Things That Have Happened, Harper Collins (India, 2012) and If It Is Sweet, Westland- Tranquebar (India, 2009) and Hunter Publishing (Australia, 2011). More information here. Her new book, Bicycle Dreaming (Speaking Tiger, 2016) is launching in January, 2016.
In Munro’s writing, generations live and breathe and die in the span of a few pages. Her short stories are celebrated for achieving what novels are charged with achieving and yet rarely do. They are celebrated for lighting up the landscape of our minds and our times. The contemporary novel – that unbearably bloated creation which confuses its desires with its ideas (think Franzen and Freedom) – has nothing on Munro or her form... full story here
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