The Munroe revelations freaked me out for reasons this essay gets at. The practice of fiction as moral evasion—as a self-excusing side-step out of messy human reality. Still grappling with this open.substack.com/pub/bryanpar...
The Geography of Silence: Alice Munro and the Costs of ExposureWhen Alice Munro went to battle against her neighbours in Huron County, Ontario, in the late summer of 1978, she did so as the high priestess of exposure.open.substack.com