Alice Munro

One great short story to read today:
Alice Munro’s “Wenlock Edge”

 
By Emily Temple  May 1, 2023
Autofiction

Appropriating Their Way Into Existence: How Black Writers Upended Autofiction

By DK Nnuro  March 15, 2023
Nobel Laureates

A Brief History of All the Women Who Have Won the Nobel Prize

By Jessi Haley  March 8, 2023
The Hub

Dear Craig Finn: here are some women writers you should read.

By Jonny Diamond  October 14, 2022
What to Watch

Who is Fire Island for? On the Currency of Reading (and Six Packs) in Pines Society

By Jack Parlett  July 8, 2022
First Draft

Rebecca Kauffman on Turning to Historical Fiction During the Chaos of 2020

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   April 18, 2022
Bookstores

Persephone Books: Finding Space for Women Writers For Two Decades

By Christina Obolenskaya  November 22, 2021
Lit Century

On the Vivid Landscapes of Alice Munro

By Lit Century   October 5, 2021
In Memoriam

The time Norm Macdonald dunked on Bret Easton Ellis in defense of Alice Munro.

By Jonny Diamond  September 15, 2021
Craft

Alix Ohlin on How to Map the Shape of Your Short Story

By Alix Ohlin  July 26, 2021
Literary Icons

Endings That Change Everything: On Alice Munro’s Literary Innovations

By Elizabeth Poliner  July 9, 2021
Short story writers

Is Alice Munro’s Lone Novel… Even a Novel?

By Benjamin Hedin  June 16, 2021
Family Stories

Seeking a Connection to My Grandmother in Alice Munro’s Queer Characters

By B. Pietras  May 26, 2021
Storytelling

Writing From Inside the Precarious Hunger of Childhood

By Linda Rui Feng  May 24, 2021
Literary Criticism

Substance If Not Style: On the Radical Similarities of Alice Munro and Pedro Almodóvar

By Veronica Esposito  May 10, 2021
5 Questions

Writer’s Block? Maggie Shipstead Befriends It Instead of Fighting It

By Literary Hub  May 7, 2021
The Hub

Read the American short stories George Saunders thinks will stand the test of time.

By Walker Caplan  February 5, 2021
Reading Lists

Rural Stories That Get it Right: A Reading List

By Ashleigh Bryant Phillips  July 6, 2020
5 Questions

Lorrie Moore on the Songs She Couldn’t Live Without

By Literary Hub  March 2, 2020
The Best of the Decade

The 10 Best Short Story Collections of the Decade

By Emily Temple  December 23, 2019
The Hub

How does the Nobel Prize affect book sales? (And what if there’s controversy?)

By Aaron Robertson  December 11, 2019
Reading Lists

40 Writer’s Writers Whomst Readers Should Read

By Emily Temple  July 19, 2019
Rejection

“Perhaps We’re Being Dense.” Rejection Letters Sent to Famous Writers

By Emily Temple  June 19, 2019
Gifts

10 Books to Give to Dads Who Don’t Read*

By Emily Temple  June 13, 2019
Contemporary Classics

Why I Had to Grow Up Before I Could Appreciate Alice Munro

By Dennis Tang  May 31, 2019
Protect Your Darlings

Brandon Taylor: When to Protect Your Characters, and When to Punish Them

By Brandon Taylor  May 22, 2019
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