When I was a fledging writer, I sent Alice Munro my 350 page novel (it was awful!!). Alice Munro kindly wrote me back. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Alice Munro is to blame for my decades’ long obsession with short stories.

When I was a fledging writer, I sent Alice Munro my 350 page novel (it was awful!!). Alice Munro kindly wrote me back. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Alice Munro is to blame for my decades’ long obsession with short stories.

When I was a fledging writer, I sent Alice Munro my 350 page novel (it was awful!!). Alice Munro kindly wrote me back. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Alice Munro is to blame for my decades’ long obsession with short stories.