So, Alice Munro.
Recently-deceased Canadian literary icon, one of thirteen women to win the Nobel Prize for literature, and one of my personal literary inspirations. Also, since her youngest daughter published an essay, a controversial figure.
Scan a headline or whatever they call a Tweet these days and read no further—a practice which has helped destroy politics in democratic societies—and you'll get something like, "Alice Munro's daughter was sexually abused by her husband and she did nothing about it." It evokes the posthumous scandal surrounding Marion Zimmer Bradley. Bradley's husband, Walter Breen, sexually abused children, including their own, and ultimately died in prison. Fifteen years after Bradley's death, her children said that she knew about Breen's activities, accepted them, and also abused children. The damage to Bradley's reputation was disastrous. My wife had grown up reading her novels. She took the news hard. Although Bradley's actions repelled me,
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