{"id":3861,"date":"2011-01-12T11:40:02","date_gmt":"2011-01-12T06:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=3745"},"modified":"2011-01-12T11:40:02","modified_gmt":"2011-01-12T06:10:02","slug":"munro-and-co","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/munro-and-co\/","title":{"rendered":"Munro and Co."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Huffington Post has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/anis-shivani\/most-important-fiction_b_805570.html#s220140&amp;title=undefined\" title=\"The Most Important Contemporary Fiction Writer  -- Huff Po\">a good feature up<\/a> in which a few major contemporary writers are asked to name &#8220;the most important contemporary fiction writer&#8221; according to them. There are some interesting choices there, and I&#8217;m not surprised that the only one picked twice is Alice Munro. <a href=\"\/congratulation-alice-munro\/\" title=\"IU on Alice Munro\">As I&#8217;ve blogged before<\/a>, she&#8217;s my favourite living writer by a long way, even though reading anything by her makes me feel my own inadequacies as a writer so much more acutely. <a href=\"http:\/\/papercuts.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/05\/18\/tangled-up-in-blue\/\" title=\"Tangled Up in Blue\">As Joni Mitchell once said<\/a>, &#8220;Whereas Carver makes me think I can write short stories, Munro makes me think I can&#8217;t.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/anis-shivani\/most-important-fiction_b_805570.html#s220140&amp;title=undefined\" title=\"The Most Important Contemporary Fiction Writer  -- Huff Po\">go check out<\/a> the whole list: hopefully you&#8217;ll add a few items to your must-read list, as I did. Time to go buy me some Stanley Elkin&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(Link via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/nilanjanaroy\" title=\"Nilanjana Roy\">Nilanjana Roy<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Huffington Post has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/anis-shivani\/most-important-fiction_b_805570.html#s220140&amp;title=undefined\" title=\"The Most Important Contemporary Fiction Writer  -- Huff Po\">a good feature up<\/a> in which a few major contemporary writers are asked to name &#8220;the most important contemporary fiction writer&#8221; according to them. There are some interesting choices there, and I&#8217;m not surprised that the only one picked twice is Alice Munro. <a href=\"\"\/iublog\/article\/congratulation-alice-munro\/\" title=\"IU on Alice Munro\">As I&#8217;ve blogged before<\/a>, she&#8217;s my favourite living writer by a long way, even though reading anything by her makes me feel my own inadequacies as a writer so much more acutely. <a href=\"http:\/\/papercuts.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/05\/18\/tangled-up-in-blue\/\" title=\"Tangled Up in Blue\">As Joni Mitchell once said<\/a>, &#8220;Whereas Carver makes me think I can write short stories, Munro makes me think I can&#8217;t.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/anis-shivani\/most-important-fiction_b_805570.html#s220140&amp;title=undefined\" title=\"The Most Important Contemporary Fiction Writer  -- Huff Po\">go check out<\/a> the whole list: hopefully you&#8217;ll add a few items to your must-read list, as I did. Time to go buy me some Stanley Elkin&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(Link via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/nilanjanaroy\" title=\"Nilanjana Roy\">Nilanjana Roy<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Munro and Co. - India Uncut<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/munro-and-co\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Munro and Co. - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Huffington Post has a good feature up in which a few major contemporary writers are asked to name &#8220;the most important contemporary fiction writer&#8221; according to them. 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