Topic: Alice Munro
Feverish speculation marked the hours before Thursday's Nobel Literature Prize announcement, with some suggesting the Arab Spring uprising could inspire an award to Syrian poet Adonis -- and one betting site tipping Bob Dylan as the favourite.Sweden's leading newspaper even ...
'This is the story of my life. These are all the books I edited.”. . It is a Friday morning in mid-July, and Douglas Gibson is examining one of two...
Don't fill in this field Book Think Home Tags Subscribe (RSS) Tweet . James Wood is probably the best literary critic working today. If he wrote a...
Montreal could have chosen any number of ways to honour Canadian literary icon Mordecai Richler on the 10th anniversary of his death, but the best...
Anticipated Results By Dennis E. Bolen Arsenal Pulp Press 240 pp; $18.95. . Reviewed by Steven W. Beattie. . First, there is the matter of genre...
Better Living Through Plastic Explosives By Zsuzsi Gartner Hamish Hamilton Canada 224 pp; $30. . Reviewed by Jeet Heer. . Alice Munro was born into...
Mavis Gallant , who knows a few things about short stories, once was kind enough to advise us on how to read them. In the introduction to her...
Life is always so full. From Alice Munro's short story 'Powers',(Runaway,Vintage Books, 2006). It doesn't matter if writing is mixed up with domestic and work matters because life is a combination of all three. Of course, you can ...
Sixty-odd years before the birth of Christ, there lived in Gaul the son of a minor aristocrat. Changing her name to Lesbia, Catullus set about dedicating a number of poems to his adulteress mistress, celebrating and lamenting their love in equal measure ...
The theme of coming of age, particularly of girls, is common in Munro's works. Alice Munro once said in an interview, her writings focus on "what people don't understand. For instance, the narrator remembers the smell of her father skinning ...
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Alice Munro In Conversation with Diana ...
Alice Munro and Diana Athill at IFOA talk about book ...2009-12-14 -
An Interview with Alice Munro
A rare and candid interview with one of Canada's ...2006-07-17 -
RetroBites: Alice Munro (1979)
Award winning author Alice Munro complains after some schools ban ...2010-08-11
