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YouLookFab Forum » Topic: Congratulations, Alice Munro! https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/congratulations-alice-munro Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Tue, 28 Apr 2026 14:23:53 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 <![CDATA[Search]]> q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php Nicole D on "Congratulations, Alice Munro!" https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/congratulations-alice-munro#post-1049981 Fri, 11 Oct 2013 18:21:26 +0000 Nicole D 1049981@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ I was so excited for Alice Munro.  A proud moment for old people, women and Canadians! Suz, your poem is luscious as  Mochi said.  The imagery is vivid and sensual. Let's hear it for talented women! merwoman on "Congratulations, Alice Munro!" https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/congratulations-alice-munro#post-1049879 Fri, 11 Oct 2013 16:17:11 +0000 merwoman 1049879@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ Loved your poem Suz - your homage to Alice Munro. Such a delight for the senses - loved how you described 'commonplace' gestures like adjusting the waistband, or hooking a purse - I could see it all unfold in my mind's eye...as well as taste the heavenly banquet you both were enjoying! I was so delighted when I heard the news yesterday-  a well deserved honour! Ingunn on "Congratulations, Alice Munro!" https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/congratulations-alice-munro#post-1049768 Fri, 11 Oct 2013 14:16:19 +0000 Ingunn 1049768@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ Wonderful poem, Suz! I'm excited to know someone who has a letter from Munro in her possession! My daughter, Middle Sister, loves Munroe's short stories as much as I do. I'm looking forward to go back and learn more about her work now, too. It's not every year the Nobel Prize is as agreeable to me as this year. nancylee on "Congratulations, Alice Munro!" https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/congratulations-alice-munro#post-1049729 Fri, 11 Oct 2013 12:54:23 +0000 nancylee 1049729@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ Yay!  I woke up to this happy news on the radio.  It is so well deserved.  Munro's short stories read like novels in their thematic and character complexity...so transporting and so deep.  Thanks for giving her a shoutout, Mochi. Suz, I loved your poem.  What a fabulous dream. Lantana on "Congratulations, Alice Munro!" https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/congratulations-alice-munro#post-1049682 Fri, 11 Oct 2013 11:38:21 +0000 Lantana 1049682@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ Mochi I have never read Alice Munro but you can bet she's top of the list as of today. When I heard the news I immediately thought of Suz and so it's all lovely and connected now like the scarves in Suz's poem. Jeanie on "Congratulations, Alice Munro!" https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/congratulations-alice-munro#post-1049636 Fri, 11 Oct 2013 07:17:28 +0000 Jeanie 1049636@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ Ahhh, so nice to hear this news.  I love her short stories. Suz, what a sensuous dream poem.  You must dream in color!  How amazing to have a letter from Alice. Eliza on "Congratulations, Alice Munro!" https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/congratulations-alice-munro#post-1049415 Thu, 10 Oct 2013 23:27:16 +0000 Eliza 1049415@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ Great to have Alice Munro recognized. Suz-  Great poem and wonderful connection there.  Now all writers will hope to come to you in a dream!  deb on "Congratulations, Alice Munro!" https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/congratulations-alice-munro#post-1049380 Thu, 10 Oct 2013 22:22:20 +0000 deb 1049380@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ Suz, what a beautiful poem! And the new about Alice is wonderful.  Anonymous on "Congratulations, Alice Munro!" https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/congratulations-alice-munro#post-1049361 Thu, 10 Oct 2013 21:54:42 +0000 Anonymous 1049361@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ This news made me so happy!  Love her! Mochi on "Congratulations, Alice Munro!" https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/congratulations-alice-munro#post-1049351 Thu, 10 Oct 2013 21:33:54 +0000 Mochi 1049351@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ Here is a nice article. I like how when she got back into the world of work, even filling out invoices was meaningful to her.  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.boston.com/ae/books/2013/10/10/canada-alice-munro-wins-nobel-literature-prize/C0xlwFsLFViMDbsZihqtWK/story.html?comments=all">http://www.boston.com/ae/books.....0xlwFsLFVi</a> Suz on "Congratulations, Alice Munro!" https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/congratulations-alice-munro#post-1049336 Thu, 10 Oct 2013 21:17:58 +0000 Suz 1049336@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ Ah, shucks, thank you. It was sort of a found poem really. A true transcription of a dream. And it does read a bit better without these funky line breaks -- oh well.  Yes -- I sent her the poem, on the recommendation of my teacher at the time, the poet George McWhirter. And she wrote me back!!!!  And actually said she liked it! You'd better believe I treasure that letter.  Her work is truly amazing and she is so deserving of the prize.  Mochi on "Congratulations, Alice Munro!" https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/congratulations-alice-munro#post-1049334 Thu, 10 Oct 2013 21:15:19 +0000 Mochi 1049334@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ And at YLF.  Lyn D. on "Congratulations, Alice Munro!" https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/congratulations-alice-munro#post-1049319 Thu, 10 Oct 2013 21:00:07 +0000 Lyn D. 1049319@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ Obviously there is a wealth of writing talent in your neck of the woods! Mochi on "Congratulations, Alice Munro!" https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/congratulations-alice-munro#post-1049300 Thu, 10 Oct 2013 20:43:26 +0000 Mochi 1049300@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ Wow, Suz! Standing ovation for that luscious poem! I think you do justice to her work in your plainspoken, sensory-lush homage-via-dream.  Mochi on "Congratulations, Alice Munro!" https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/congratulations-alice-munro#post-1049294 Thu, 10 Oct 2013 20:35:13 +0000 Mochi 1049294@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ Suz, just had to say that I haven't read your poem, yet. I am just too stupefied for now to think that she wrote to you.  I'm really back into appreciation of short stories at the moment (still loving novels, too--overall, trying to read more fiction). Anyway, so pleased about this. I read "The Moons of Jupiter" about a decade ago at my public library and I disappeared into another universe. I literally felt disoriented when the story was over and I looked up from the book.  Beth Ann on "Congratulations, Alice Munro!" https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/congratulations-alice-munro#post-1049269 Thu, 10 Oct 2013 19:52:19 +0000 Beth Ann 1049269@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ Heard this news this morning and was so delighted!  And Suz -- what a beautiful sensory-rich poem.  Love the fashion moments in it it, too!  Fashion, food, writing.  What more could you want?  Well, I'd add singing, and Mochi, you'd probably add some Tango! Suz on "Congratulations, Alice Munro!" https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/congratulations-alice-munro#post-1049227 Thu, 10 Oct 2013 18:46:40 +0000 Suz 1049227@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ ETA: the line breaks are completely wonky -- not the way they are in my poem -- I am sorry -- can't seem to fix the formatting.  Suz on "Congratulations, Alice Munro!" https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/congratulations-alice-munro#post-1049225 Thu, 10 Oct 2013 18:43:40 +0000 Suz 1049225@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ I know! Super proud moment for Canadians, too!  And in honour of that, here is a poem I once wrote about her. Better yet, she wrote me a letter about it!! YES! I am the proud possessor of a letter from Alice Munro!!   "Sharing the Fruits" (appeared in The New Quarterly)   Last night, I dreamed of Alice Munro. Yes, the writer. The one who wins all the prizes and worse or better yet, deserves them.   Alice and I were at a large hotel, late-stayers after some grand event. Apart from stragglers, still shouldering coats and bags, and some waiters, who were stacking chairs and calling out to one another, their voices desultory and clipped, we were alone – and all around us crumbs, crumpled napkins, and lipstick tattooed wineglasses.   The lights came up or on, and Alice said, We might as well sit down. So we climbed three stairs to a dais protected by wrought-iron balusters where we found ourselves a table. A white cloth and some dirty plates lay on it. I pushed the plates aside. Alice hooked her purse on the back of her chair, adjusted the waistband of her dress, and tamed a stray grey curl. We sighed, well satisfied, and settled down to the serious business of talk.   Alice spoke charmingly. She has a crooked, knowing smile and (in my dream at least) she doesn’t stand on ceremony.   We had much to discuss. The jobs we’ve shared, for instance. Bookstore clerk. Turkey gutter. Is this not an unusual coincidence?   At the room’s perimeter, waiters faded in and out of view, but no one took our order. Finally, with a shrug that revealed her clavicles, Alice angled an eyebrow and announced, Since they’ve left all this, we might as well eat it. I couldn’t have agreed more. I poured us miraculously hot coffee from the hotel’s metal pot –  and passed a basket of croissants. Our lips shone. Butter coarse-coated the roofs of our mouths. Our conversation percolated.   Then (as happens in dreams – in my dreams, anyway, and I suspect in yours) the basket vanished and in its place appeared a hill of chiffon scarves. Amethyst, crimson, periwinkle, rose, saturated colours, shot with silver threads, they were rumpled, braided, and as knotted as the strands of one of Alice’s stories, I might have said but didn’t.   How do you suppose we untangle these, asked Alice, and glad to be of service, shocked to find that I could do a thing she couldn’t – even something as trivial as this – I set to work. Smoothing them, untying them, releasing all their folds, the silk between my fingers the same texture as the pastry on my tongue, I spread them out before us, one by one, a marvellous mille-feuille, beautiful as dawn. Delicious, too – eating them was like eating the summer air.   Of course, we were still just as hungry afterwards.   I would like an orange, said Alice, an orange, or possibly an apple. The waiters continued to ignore us as waiters will, in dreams, and after all, they had the clean-up to take care of – a fact that Alice and I were aware of. So we sat until another basket appeared, just as we thought it would.   Beneath a starched white napkin two freshly baked potatoes squatted. Alice eyed them avidly. Their skins brown and yielding, their flesh crumbling and hot, we slathered them in butter, strewed them with salt and dug in.         Ornella on "Congratulations, Alice Munro!" https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/congratulations-alice-munro#post-1049224 Thu, 10 Oct 2013 18:42:00 +0000 Ornella 1049224@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ Mochi, beautifully said... "I look forward to going back to her work, and finding inspiration and insight as a writer, a woman and a fellow human being." Mochi on "Congratulations, Alice Munro!" https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/congratulations-alice-munro#post-1049195 Thu, 10 Oct 2013 17:53:44 +0000 Mochi 1049195@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ It's been announced today that she's won this year's Nobel Prize for Literature. I'm on an iPhone and unable to link to any good overviews of her work, life, or career, but I'm delighted with this selection. Her short stories, the ones I've read (all years back) were finely honed in terms of craft, and full of truth and compassion. I look forward to going back to her work, and finding inspiration and insight as a writer, a woman and a fellow human being.