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Clare Sestanovich Reads Alice Munro

The New Yorker: Fiction

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Is There a Difference Between Fame and Notoriety?

In the version of the story that Monroe published, she's a writer. The idea of her career as a painter comes up fairly early when she's sitting in the waiting room and reading a magazine about another painter thinking of her father. I do think what we're really seeing in the story is these two people in a very intimate setting struggling with what it means to know each other.

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