Alice Munro | The Love of a Good Woman

The History of Literature

Jacke Wilson

History, Books, Arts

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🗓️ 1 June 2020

⏱️ 84 minutes

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"She is our Chekhov," said Cynthia Ozick, "and she is going to outlast most of her contemporaries." Ozick was talking about the great Alice Munro, the Canadian writer whose short stories about ordinary women and men have garnered every literary prize imaginable. In this episode, the first of three Alice Munro Week special episodes, Jacke introduces Part One of Munro's masterpiece of a novella, "The Love of a Good Woman." Help support the show at patreon.com/literature or historyofliterature.com/shop. (We appreciate it!) Find out more at historyofliterature.com, jackewilson.com, or by following Jacke and Mike on Twitter at @thejackewilson and @literatureSC. Or send an email to [email protected]. Music Credits: “Et Voila” and “Long Stroll” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ *** 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, I'm Jack Wilson.
0:11.0	Welcome to The History of Literature Podcast.
0:33.5	Today we're going to start listening to one of
0:36.4	Alice Monroe's greatest works.
0:38.2	The love of a good woman, a 1996 novella length story.
0:43.4	I'm going to listen to this in three parts.
0:45.9	In fact, we'll have three shows this week, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, that's the plan,
0:50.7	so you can get your fill of Alice Monroe and what a beautiful story it is.
0:56.8	Expansive and yet intimate, sweeping and yet so intricate it will take your breath away.
1:04.2	It's Monroe at her best, withholding truths, withholding conclusions.
1:09.8	She is a hard author to pin down sometimes.
1:12.3	She's so generous and insightful
1:14.8	with the smallest of observations.
1:17.2	And at the same time, just when you think
1:18.9	she's going to give you something, she pulls back.
1:22.2	And you're left alone with a haunting image and the memory of your
1:25.8	own expectations.
1:28.6	How do we read an author like this?
1:32.2	And in this case, we have an almost direct comparison. Stephen King, whose
1:38.0	novella The Body was turned into the movie Stand By Me, by Rob Reiner.
1:42.6	There's a lot of parallels between Alice Monroe's story
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