Alice Munro has won the Nobel Prize for literature. In the Sept. 15, 2001 edition of Saturday Night magazine, Frank Moher, backofthebook.ca’s editor, wrote with tongue only-slightly-in-cheek about the great volume of short story collections published in Canada, perhaps inspired by having the great Ms. Munro among us. His suggestion for a short-story moratorium did […]
The Globe: War is Peace
By David@Sixthestate.net Even by the steadily declining standards of The Globe and Mail, Canada’s “paper of record” hit an unusual low in its angry and Orwellian response to the announcement that the European Union was being given this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. It’s definitely a bit of a head-scratcher, although notably less so than, say, […]
Doris disses the Nobel
By Frank Moher I may be able, in my own humble, not-worthy-to-lick-her-boots sort of way, to shed some light on Doris Lessing’s response to winning the Nobel Prize for Literature. Her reaction was superb: Clambering out of a cab, she was confronted by a gaggle of reporters, one of whom broke the news to her: […]
