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| Added: Thursday, July 10, 2008 | ||||||||||||||
| Source: APM: Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac Podcast feed | ||||||||||||||
Summary: Thursday's Poem: From "Trees" by W. S. Merwin from The Compass Flower. Thursday's Literary Notes: It's the birthday of short-story writer Alice Munro, born Alice Laidlaw in Wingham, Ontario (1931). She grew up on a farm in the poor part of town. Her father tried to make a living raising minks and foxes. She said, "We lived in this kind of ghetto where all the bootleggers and prostitutes and hangers-on lived ... a little town where nobody was interested in writing or the world of literature." She was though, and she loved to make up stories. She said, "You were never praised for the things you could do well. You were taught to pay attention to whatever you were bad at." Every day on the way to school she told herself a new story, though she never told them to anybody else... |
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