{"id":3021,"date":"2013-10-10T13:15:24","date_gmt":"2013-10-10T13:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bnreview.barnesandnoble.com\/t5\/In-the-Margin\/Alice-Munro-Nobel-Laureate\/ba-p\/11521"},"modified":"2013-10-10T13:15:24","modified_gmt":"2013-10-10T13:15:24","slug":"alice-munro-nobel-laureate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/2013\/10\/10\/alice-munro-nobel-laureate\/","title":{"rendered":"Alice Munro, Nobel Laureate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In my own house, I seemed to be often looking for a place to hide&mdash;sometimes from the children but more often from the jobs to be done and the phone ringing and the sociability of the neighborhood. I wanted to hide so that I could get busy at my real work, which was a sort of wooing of distant parts of myself.&#8221; That&rsquo;s the unmistakable voice of <strong>Alice Munro<\/strong>, who has just been awarded the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/10\/11\/books\/alice-munro-wins-nobel-prize-in-literature.html?_r=0\" ><strong>Nobel Prize in Literature<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We congratulate the Swedish Academy on its very good taste. If you&rsquo;ve never read Munro&#8217;s work, you&rsquo;ll find the story I&rsquo;ve quoted (&#8220;Miles City, Montana&#8221;) and other splendid works <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/selected-stories-alice-munro\/1002577836?ean=9780679766742\" >here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In my own house, I seemed to be often looking for a place to hide&mdash;sometimes from the children but more often from the jobs to be done and the phone ringing and the sociability of the neighborhood. I wanted to hide so that I could get busy at my &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-3021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","tag-contributed-publishers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3021"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}