I tend to stay clear of Fiction written by women (although not history or biograpy) and only sporadically read short stories.. especially of topics of domesticity.. so i've never read Alice Munro. But she doesn't seem particularly political or ethnically marginalized.. so the tendency to give the award to politically correct paracletes.. which has taken over all of the Nobel awards in recent years.. might not apply here.
Apparently the New Yorker is running one of her better known stories next week in honour.. so maybe i'll give it a try. Anyway congrats.. as there are some Nobel literature laureates that i highly respect.. T.S. Eliot, W. B. Yeats, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Seamus Heaney, J.M. Coetzee and others.. she's in some good company.
