What Alice Munro Has Left Us
A reflection on the death at 92 of the Nobel Prize–winning master of the short story
A reflection on the death at 92 of the Nobel Prize–winning master of the short story
In her slim books, the French writer Colombe Schneck stares honestly at her own life, without illusions or sentimentality.
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Alice Munro’s death was an occasion to praise her life as a writer as much as her actual work.
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Which is entirely true, by the way.
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