Some Subjects Will Always Be Third Rails

Art Monster: Lesson Three

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My post last week about what the July 7 bombshell by the writer Alice Munro’s youngest daughter, Andrea Skinner, did or did not reveal about Munro’s monstrousness proved to be something of a Rorschach test. Like many such articles, people read it through the lens of their own experience with abuse and family secrets. 

Of course, we all read everything through our own personal lenses; that’s how the brain works. But I’ve found that when it comes to certain subjects, objectivity is, well, objectively impossible.