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Fun with The New Yorker and Alice Munro

The other day Quillblog noticed that The New Yorker’s website lists “keywords” for its archived articles, including fiction. Quillblog also noticed that in many cases the keywords (a) tell a little story of their own, and/or (b) are often pretty entertaining.

So here’s a challenge for fans of CanLit giant (and New Yorker regular) Alice Munro: match the keyword collections with the story they refer to.

The stories are “Dimension” (June 2006); “Wenlock Edge” (December 2005); “The View from Castle Rock” (August 2005); and “Passion” (March 2004).

The keywords:

A. College Students; Second Cousins; Dinners; Roommates; Love Affairs; Kept Women; “A Shropshire Lad”

B. Boyfriends; Love; Dates; Houses; Ottowa [sic] Valley; Sabot Lake; Canada

C. Murder; Children; Marriage; Mental Illness; Buses; Ontario, Canada; Social Workers

D. Ocean Voyages; Immigrants, Immigration; Atlantic Ocean; Edinburgh, Scotland; Quebec, Canada; Pregnant, Pregnancy; Children

Answers after the jump!

A. “Wenlock Edge”

B. “Passion”

C. “Dimension”

D. “The View from Castle Rock”

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