115 The Genius of Alice Munro

The History of Literature

Jacke Wilson

History, Arts, Books

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2017

⏱️ 94 minutes

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She was born Alice Ann Laidlaw on July 10, 1931, in a small town called Wingham Ontario, the daughter of a mink farmer and a schoolteacher. Eighty years later, Alice Munro was the first Canadian to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Mike and Jacke look at Alice Munro and one of her greatest masterworks, the short story “The Bear Came Over the Mountain.” Support the show at patreon.com/literature. Learn more about the show at historyofliterature.com. Contact the host at jackewilsonauthor@gmail.com. *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy. Since you're listening to The History of Literature, we'd like to suggest you also try other Podglomerate shows surrounding literature, history, and storytelling like Storybound, Micheaux Mission, and The History of Standup. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The History of Literature Podcast is a member of the Podglamorate Network and LIT Hub Radio.
0:07.0	Hello.
0:11.0	She was born Alice Ann Laidlaw on July 10th, 1931 in a small town called
0:16.5	Wingham, Ontario, the daughter of a mink farmer and a school teacher.
0:21.3	Eighty years later, Alice Monroe was the first Canadian to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature,
0:27.0	cited by the committee as a master of the short story.
0:31.4	But even in her incredibly rich body of work, one story has stood out.
0:36.0	The Bear came over the mountain, which has entranced its readers ever since it was first published
0:41.3	in the December 27th 1999 issue of the New Yorker.
0:45.4	After rereading the story in the wake of the news of her Nobel Prize,
0:48.8	Critic James Wood wrote, quote,
0:51.2	few contemporary writers are more admired and with good reason.
0:55.6	Everyone gets called our checkoff.
0:57.6	All you have to do nowadays is write a few half decent stories and you are our checkoff.
1:03.0	But Alice Monroe really is our checkoff,
1:06.0	which is to say the English languages checkoff.
1:10.0	End quote.
1:11.0	We're looking at Alice Monroe and one of her greatest masterworks today on the history of literature. Okay. Okay, here we go. Welcome to the podcast. I'm Jack Wilson. We have Mike
1:38.8	Palandrome here today to discuss Alice, Alice Man, sorry, to discuss Alice Monroe and one of her stories.
1:45.0	The ending of that story, if you haven't read it in a while or have never had the pleasure,
1:50.0	well you should definitely check it out.
1:52.0	We talk about the ending and I can feel my pulse quickening even now. The ending is so gorgeous and filled with such a lovely ambiguity. it becomes something larger than life
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