a quote

[jawnbc]

“‘’The complexity of things -- the things within things -- just seems to be endless”

Alice Munro, Canadian short fiction auteuse extraordinaire, to the NY Times. You can find out more here.

Oh, she won her second Giller Prize last week, and is up for another Governor General’s Literary Award. If the Booker allowed short story collectiions, she’d have one. The Nobel does . . .

When I grow up, I wanna be, like, the love child of Alice Munro and Carol Shields. As a writer.

Yeah, right

Comments

[ex-nashobabe711.livejournal.com]

We read Alice Munro all the time, in bits and pieces. Because she writes short fiction, is contemporary, and (apparently) does not charge obscene amounts for reprint rights, she is heavily anthologized in freshman composition readers and "introduction to literature" readers...

[deafdyke.livejournal.com]

I'd forgotten she was Canadian! I'd have to put her next to Atwood and Robertson Davies, then. Munro's writing is ... leisurely. So different from today's writing, where moving along the plot rather than holding one's interest seems to be the rule.

[sunsmogseahorse.livejournal.com]

My then partner and I read her book of shorts that came out in 1996, aloud, on a car trip throughout the American West. Damn, that woman can write.