Comments on: A Conversation with Alice Munro

By: Liz Lochhead

Liz Lochhead — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 00:06:11 +0000

Everything Alice Munro says here is illuminating and surprising and wise. (Down to the good sense of the danger of giving advice to young writers) In her fiction, the fact that ‘what happens’ is always deeply surprising — astonishing — even if nothing much — out in the surface of life — may seem to have happened at all — this makes life both terrifying and amazing, as it really is. And Munro’s fiction (these long stories, not short stories, these ‘novels with all the boring bits left out’) pay proper obeisance to this.
She started off both brilliant and unique — and just got better and better. It makes me happy that when she names her own favourites they are mine too. I have read and re-read, with pleasure that does not diminish, every word of hers I can lay my hands on. It was a treat to come across this conversation with the Real McCoy. I can see why Franzen calls fiction his religion in his appreciation of Alice Munro.

By: Billie Walker

Billie Walker — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 14:22:59 +0000

I am taking english 102 literature, and read Alice Munro’s “How I Met My Husband.” liked it very much, did a essay on it, and now decided to do my research paper on it also. I find her to be very interesting, i am looking forward to reading many more of her short stories.

By: Celia

Celia — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 16:05:41 +0000

Hello! I am doing a speech on the Greatest Canadian. Just wondering why you think Alice Munro is the Greatest Canadian? I would appreciate your thoughts, thank you!

By: Katherine

Katherine — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 03:16:45 +0000

Thanks for sharing this interview!

By: Ruth Heinrichs

Ruth Heinrichs — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 02:03:31 +0000

I’ve read everything Alice Munro ever wrote. She is Canada’s best short-story writer.

By: Freddie B.

Freddie B. — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 20:43:31 +0000

Only one lonely comment – surely the greatest living short story writer deserves better than that? All I will say is that I have been reading Alice Munro off and on for about twenty years now with an ever-increasing depth of enjoyment and admiration for what she does. Her last three collections have been particularly astonishing. Long may she continue to write.

By: D. Daniel

D. Daniel — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:32:23 +0000

Great to have access to her interview.