After Alice Munro: What Happens When Good Writers are Bad People? - Episode 2 with Canadian writer Guy Vanderhaeghe
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After Alice Munro: What Happens When Good Writers are Bad People? - Episode 2 with Canadian writer Guy Vanderhaeghe
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Alice Munro, a Canadian writer who is considered a modern master of the short story form, was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 2013. She was 82 years old at the time, a formidable presence in Canadian letters, as described by Guy in this interview, and only one of a handful of women to have received this award. Her death in May of 2024 was a major event in world literature. In July, however, her daughter published an article in the Toronto Star revealing that she had been abused by Munro's husband - and that Munro was complicit in the abuse. Since then, the literary world has been grappling with this revelation. What does Andrea Skinner's story tell us about the world we live in and how it needs to change? This interview was recorded before Ms. Skinner published her story - but Guy presciently raised the difficult question of what to do when, as he says, "bad people are good writers."