{You will want to start with Part 1 of episode 135; it can be found right here]
Linda Schlossberg, author of Life in Miniature, who teaches at Harvard, joins RTB to read and explore one of her favorite Alice Munro stories, “Miles City, Montana” in our new series, Recall This Story.
Mentioned in the episode
Edgar Allen Poe had an account (in a review of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short works) of short stories as compact and singular in their focus; also fo his notion of “the imp of the perverse.”
The 19th-century Scottish novelist and short-storyist James Hogg, “The Ettrick Shepherd” is one of Munro’s Scottish ancestors: John has written about him.
Munro’s Books is the thriving bookstore Alice Munro co-founded.
Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn. For his discussion of the “good” white people of Hannibal MO (including his own mother) and their obliviousness to teh reality of slavery, see his Autobiography.
“When He Cometh” (hymn sung at funeral)
Here’s what it meant to look chic like Jackie O in 1962
Did you miss the beginning of the story? Head back to Part 1 of episode 135.
Recall This Book 