I resent the recent accusations against Munro being held against her body of work when the quality of her work still resounds with so many. Scholarship is based on the eternal value and enduring quality of an author's work, against which material that has nothing to do with the actual work's value doesn't mean shit. If you get the Nobel Prize, and are the only Canadian author to ever have gotten it so far, that means considerably more...
I resent the recent accusations against Munro being held against her body of work when the quality of her work still resounds with so many. Scholarship is based on the eternal value and enduring quality of an author's work, against which material that has nothing to do with the actual work's value doesn't mean shit. If you get the Nobel Prize, and are the only Canadian author to ever have gotten it so far, that means considerably more...