Alice Munro has to be the best short story writer on the planet! (Well, William Trevor is also amazing and so, in a totally different way, is George Saunders). Still, I’ve been reading Munro’s stories in The New Yorker for years and have also read some of her collected works, and she never ceases to startle, even shock, as [...]
Archive for February, 2008
Munro does it again
Posted in The New Yorker on February 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Life of Jane
Posted in Literary Links, movies on February 5, 2008 | 2 Comments »
So, I was also dreading Miss Austen Regrets, the most recent of the PBS series “The Complete Jane Austen.” I was afraid it would be simplistic and reductive, overemphasizing early flirtations and making overt connections between her life and the novels, like the recent movie Becoming Jane. However, it was nothing of the kind. By [...]
MP – I liked it!
Posted in Literary Links, books, movies, tagged movies on February 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I was dreading this version of Mansfield Park (aired on “Masterpiece” on Sunday, January 27), but it was good. What a relief. I was thinking it was impossible to do a good job with MP because so many people (not me!) dislike Fanny Price. In Patricia Rozema’s 1999 version, she conflates Fanny’s character with that [...]
