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Posted on May 15, 2024 at 3:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Canadian author Alice Munro, widely considered a master of the short story, died yesterday at age ninety-two.
Appreciations and memories of her continue to pour in across the literary media.
We shared some of those in yesterday's post about her death; here are several more to enjoy:
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Five of the best Alice Munro short stories (The Guardian)
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Margaret Atwood reads "Dance of the Happy Shades" by Alice Munro (The Guardian)
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"Reading her stories is like watching a virtuoso pianist perform" (The Guardian)
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What Alice Munro has left us (The Atlantic)
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No one wrote about sex like Alice Munro (Vulture)
Additionally, you can revisit her 1994 interview with The Paris Review.
Munro has won both the Man Booker International Prize and the Nobel Prize in Literature for a lifetime of excellence in short-story writing, as seen in collections like The Love of a Good Woman; Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage; and Runaway.
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