Alice Munro by Glenn Kellam https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij en-us 2023-05-29 05:17:03 UTC 2023-06-21 00:04:07 UTC hello@padlet.com nor00211 https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608392634 2023-05-30 01:36:58 UTC https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608392634 LOVE https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608393093 2023-05-30 01:37:22 UTC https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608393093 biggest fan https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608393360 2023-05-30 01:37:37 UTC https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608393360 nor00211 https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608393983 2023-05-30 01:38:10 UTC https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608393983 freaky little lady alice https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608394000 2023-05-30 01:38:11 UTC https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608394000 nor00211 https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608394719 2023-05-30 01:38:46 UTC https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608394719 When I was young it was Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers, Katherine Anne Porter, Flannery O'Connor, James Agee. Then Updike, Cheever, Joyce Carol Oates, Peter Taylor, and especially and forever, William Maxwell. Also William Trevor, Edna O'Brien, Richard Ford. These I would say are influences. https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608395508 2023-05-30 01:39:22 UTC https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608395508 due to economic growth after WW2, Ontario Canada in the 60's was productive and full of opportunity (says this website I just looked at) https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608395725

]]> 2023-05-30 01:39:34 UTC https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608395725 She admitted in an interview that she'd smoked marijuana before, but didn't say what she thought about it. https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608395730 2023-05-30 01:39:35 UTC https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608395730 Biographical Info glennkellam https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608395835 2023-05-30 01:39:40 UTC https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608395835 FUN FACTZ https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608395842 2023-05-30 01:39:40 UTC https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608395842 nor00211 https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608395845 2023-05-30 01:39:41 UTC https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608395845 her birth name is alice laidlaw https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608396393 2023-05-30 01:40:07 UTC https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608396393 nor00211 https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608396919 2023-05-30 01:40:35 UTC https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608396919 Ideas and Literary Concerns glennkellam https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608396972 2023-05-30 01:40:38 UTC https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608396972 Writing style and literary career glennkellam https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608397677 2023-05-30 01:41:13 UTC https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608397677 she used books as an escape https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608397943 2023-05-30 01:41:27 UTC https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608397943 She is partial to white wine, particularly sauvignon blanc https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608398167 2023-05-30 01:41:36 UTC https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608398167 Her worlds create a “strange mixture of physical freedom and emotional claustrophobia.” https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608398478 2023-05-30 01:41:51 UTC https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608398478 Context and Setting glennkellam https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608399074 2023-05-30 01:42:16 UTC https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608399074 https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608399090 Her first book of short stories, Dance of the Happy Shades, was written over a 15-year span.]]> 2023-05-30 01:42:17 UTC https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608399090 nor00211 https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608399463 2023-05-30 01:42:28 UTC https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608399463 nor00211 https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608399769 2023-05-30 01:42:43 UTC https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608399769 In university, Munro earned money by selling her blood, working at the library and in tobacco fields. https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608400120 2023-05-30 01:42:59 UTC https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608400120 Alice Munro. Born: July 10 1931, Wingham, Ontario. Educated: 1949-51 University of Western Ontario. Married: 1951 James Munro, (three daughters, '53 Sheila, '57 Jenny, '66 Andrea); '76 Gerald Fremlin. https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608400723 2023-05-30 01:43:27 UTC https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608400723 emo era colourised (very important) https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608400935 2023-05-30 01:43:37 UTC https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608400935 she decided to marry her second husband (an old friend) after meeting and drinking 3 martinis. #truelove https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608401357 2023-05-30 01:44:00 UTC https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608401357 Munro is actually really normal in person. "Writers often feel obliged to adopt some sort of public appearance. But she's quite self-effacing physically," https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608401887 2023-05-30 01:44:28 UTC https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608401887 nor00211 https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608402706 For a long time Alice Munro has been compared with Chekhov]]> 2023-05-30 01:45:14 UTC https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608402706 She started writing as a teen, and tried to continue despite rejection from publishers and constraints of marriage and motherhood https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608402764 2023-05-30 01:45:18 UTC https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608402764 Munro taught creative writing at York University in Toronto in 1973, but quit because she hated her class, which was all male except for "one girl who hardly got to speak." She called their writing "incomprehensible and trite; they seemed intolerant of anything else." https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608403100 2023-05-30 01:45:37 UTC https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608403100 alice munro. more like. more like. more like alice. alice more like https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608403194 2023-05-30 01:45:42 UTC https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608403194 nor00211 https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608403366 Alice Laidlaw was born on July 10, 1931, just outside Wingham, Ontario; the town and its surroundings have been a constant in her work (renamed Jubilee, or perhaps Hanratty). "I am intoxicated by this landscape, by the almost flat fields, the swamps, the hardwood bush, by the continental climate with its extravagant winters,"]]> 2023-05-30 01:45:51 UTC https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608403366 Munro sees herself as "a friendly person who is not very sociable." https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608403998 2023-05-30 01:46:26 UTC https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608403998 https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608404204 2023-05-30 01:46:37 UTC https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608404204 https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608404432 2023-05-30 01:46:49 UTC https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608404432 https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608404737 2023-05-30 01:47:03 UTC https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608404737 AI cowboy nor00211 https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608404756 2023-05-30 01:47:04 UTC https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608404756 https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608405027 2023-05-30 01:47:17 UTC https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608405027 Some of her Scottish relatives were writers who got invited to the dinner parties of Sir Walter Scott, mainly to serve as buffoons. https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608405163 2023-05-30 01:47:24 UTC https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608405163 Her mother was irish and lived in Ontereo https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608405184 2023-05-30 01:47:25 UTC https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608405184 https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608405432 2023-05-30 01:47:35 UTC https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608405432 nor00211 https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608405850 2023-05-30 01:47:54 UTC https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608405850 she was the first canadian citizen to win a nobel prize for lit https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608405883 2023-05-30 01:47:56 UTC https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608405883 real https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608406042 2023-05-30 01:48:03 UTC https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608406042 boooo https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608406631 2023-05-30 01:48:28 UTC https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608406631 ALICE MUNRO WORLD TOUR nor00211 https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608406837 2023-05-30 01:48:38 UTC https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608406837 Ted Talk on Alice Munro https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608407126 2023-05-30 01:48:54 UTC https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608407126 main themes: memory, love, transience, death https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608407381 2023-05-30 01:49:07 UTC https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608407381 "Walker Brothers Cowboy" https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608407438 2023-05-30 01:49:10 UTC https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608407438 Munro explores the distinctive gender roles found within the house versus outside it, as seen through the eyes of the young narrators https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608407715 2023-05-30 01:49:23 UTC https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608407715 https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608407829 "Munro has talked about ‘the complexity of things, the things within things’. It is her natural ability to describe the ‘shameless, marvellous, shattering absurdity’ of life, to express it in just the right way, to capture it in all its endless, shapeless strangeness, which makes her so good."

https://literature.britishcouncil.org/writer/alice-munro]]> 2023-05-30 01:49:28 UTC https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608407829 'To explore such themes within the limitations of the short-story form with subtlety and depth is Munro's achievement' https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608408363 - quoted by me ]]> 2023-05-30 01:49:55 UTC https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608408363 nor00211 https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608408487 2023-05-30 01:50:00 UTC https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608408487 She had 4 daughters, one who died the day of birth. Themes of motherhood and loss in writing. https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608410267 2023-05-30 01:50:57 UTC https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608410267 'She tells us what it is to be a human being. She is wholly without cliché' https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608410577 2023-05-30 01:51:10 UTC https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608410577 nor00211 https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608410735 2023-05-30 01:51:18 UTC https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608410735 https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608411754 2023-05-30 01:52:10 UTC https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608411754 https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608411767 2023-05-30 01:52:11 UTC https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608411767 https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608411971 2023-05-30 01:52:23 UTC https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608411971 https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608412048 2023-05-30 01:52:26 UTC https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608412048 nor00211 https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608412134 2023-05-30 01:52:31 UTC https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608412134 short story reading with the pirate folk nor00211 https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608412330 2023-05-30 01:52:41 UTC https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608412330 https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608412716 2023-05-30 01:53:03 UTC https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608412716 https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608414351 2023-05-30 01:54:20 UTC https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608414351 https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608414740 2023-05-30 01:54:38 UTC https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608414740 https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608415096 2023-05-30 01:54:54 UTC https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608415096 https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608415360 Born in Wingham, Ontario, a rural province and where the two largest cities of Canada are located. The socio-political context where she still lives contributed greatly to her writing and influences. Born in 1931, ideals of the time in which she grew up.]]> 2023-05-30 01:55:05 UTC https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608415360 alice munro with shrek real https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608415674 2023-05-30 01:55:23 UTC https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608415674 dinner with the count xx nor00211 https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608415828 2023-05-30 01:55:30 UTC https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608415828 alice munro in the fnaf movie https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608417178 2023-05-30 01:56:40 UTC https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608417178 alice munro with alice munro barbie https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608421086 2023-05-30 02:00:09 UTC https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608421086 kawaii era nor00211 https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608422061 2023-05-30 02:00:50 UTC https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608422061 Alice munro dancing https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608425102 2023-05-30 02:03:29 UTC https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608425102 William afton munro https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608429620 2023-05-30 02:07:02 UTC https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608429620 https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608442234 2023-05-30 02:16:19 UTC https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608442234 https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608442881 2023-05-30 02:16:41 UTC https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608442881 Winx Fairy Alice Munro https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608464517 2023-05-30 02:32:15 UTC https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2608464517 Shrek https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2614276687 2023-06-05 02:09:25 UTC https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2614276687 cool factz https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2628523134 2023-06-21 00:04:04 UTC https://padlet.com/glennkellam/8t986nfuv0bsz0ij/wish/2628523134