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...first stories in “Too Much Happiness” exhibit Munro’s power at its best. Possibly due to the repetitive nature of her subject matter, her later stories become less and less fresh and she resorts more and more to the formula that she knows cannot fail. She becomes overly romantic about the characters she is describing and can’t help but hide her enthusiasm. Describing the third craftsman we encounter, she says, “He can lie awake nights thinking of a splendid beech he wants to get at, wondering...
...reaction is not an uncommon one. “Lolita,” published in 1955, provoked scandal not for any outward lewdness, but for its relentlessly dispassionate treatment of a traditionally pornographic subject. There’s something of the scalpel in those descriptions of 12-year-old Lo’s “pre-adolescently incurved back, that ivory-smooth, sliding sensation of her skin through the thin frock.” Of course, such detached precision—each word set down deliberately as a pin through the thorax of a butterfly?...
...Subject: government, current affairs
...Subject: various travels, book tours, hikes up mountains...
...duct tape runner, Harvard alumnus Jeffrey T. Ferris ’77, became Lieberman’s first subject...