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Franzen and Rogers Battle for Alice’s Affections

By Sarah Lazarovic

munro128bw.jpgWho loves Alice more? CBC Schoolmarm Shelagh Rogers had wanted to interview Alice Munro for seventeen years before she got the chance to fawn over the Gilleress last week. And spectacled Jonathan Franzen made a spectacle of his love for Alice in the pages of the Times Book Review yesterday. Torontoist hasn’t read Runaway yet, but we listened to a lively Talking Books panel on the work, one in which New Yorker Adam Gopnik used the word ‘expatriated’ with such frequency that we had to wonder if he was launching a campaign to bring greater popularity to the unruly term. As for Alice, we’re happy for her. We hope she wins the Nobel. We like grand dames who wear sunglasses indoors. But we also really like the BlackBook Mag challenge, the one where they ask readers to put people in the ring together (the interview ring, that is). We’d like to see Franzen and Rogers duke it out. Alice proclaims the victor.

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  • http://boyreporter.blogspot.com Ron

    I loved Franzen’s line about why Munro won’t get the Nobel.
    “The Swedish Royal Academy is taking a firm stand. Evidently, the feeling in Stockholm is that too many Canadians and too many pure short-story writers have already been given the Nobel. Enough is enough!”