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As it stands, its place as a literary locus in the American canon is a fraught one
If any writer was acutely aware of how complicated the human psyche is, it was Munro
His career represented a sequence of missed opportunities for the world beyond his chosen genre to recognize his skill and quiet profundity
His personal life was eventful, as any good writer’s should be
He might be the greatest American novelist you’ve never heard of
When you give a child a book by a celebrity, you are feeding their minds with advertising
How William Jones’s groundbreaking argument in favor of ‘Asiatic poetry’ captivated Europe’s men of letters
How Frank Herbert borrowed from the Chechens and elsewhere
‘Breakfast Special’ is a tale of a meet-cute gone wrong
The writer was one of the great underrated chroniclers of ’the valley of the shadow of books’
