#alicemonro — Public Fediverse posts

Additional dismay reverberated through the literary world on Tuesday as it came to light that a biographer and others had known for years that Nobel Prize-winning Canadian writer Alice Munro, who died in May at 92, had long kept secret that her second husband sexually abused one of her daughters.
#Canada #CanLit #ethics #SexualAssault #AliceMonro #TheyKnew
https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/07/09/alice-munro-colleagues-abuse/

Evil lies everywhere. Trust no one.

"When I was alone with Fremlin, he made lewd jokes, exposed himself during car rides, told me about the little girls in the neighbourhood he liked, and described my mother’s sexual needs."
#SexualAssault #AliceMonro #Canada #NobelPrize #literature #perverts
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/my-stepfather-sexually-abused-me-when-i-was-a-child-my-mother-alice-munro-chose/article_8415ba7c-3ae0-11ef-83f5-2369a808ea37.html

She was old. These things happen.
#AliceMonro #NobelPrize #literature #Canada
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/14/books/alice-munro-dead.html