1. A few thoughts on bad books by great writers. Bad books should be seen as necessary failures that push writers to better work.
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6. "Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You" is Alice Munro's weakest collection, a book of uncertain, undeveloped stories.
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7. Yet with "Something" Munro broke with her earlier reflexive habit of epiphanic endings, shuffling narrative deck: seeds of great work.
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@HeerJeet Starting with Couples (the JFK assassination), Updike's ambition to encompass his era caused his shorter fiction to suffer. -
@CarlRobertAnd Interesting thought. But Maple Stories (late 1960s/1970s) are among his best, no? - Show replies
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