Dear Tell All: I felt annoyed reading the recent articles about Lorrie Moore, the fiction writer who has taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison since the 1980s and is now leaving for Vanderbilt University. I used to be a fan of Moore?s work, but she turned me off with the way she comported herself as a Madison resident. She made it clear in many interviews how little she thought of the city and its people. This disdain also showed up in her fiction. To me that?s unseemly, given that her high UW salary was supported by local taxpayers.
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