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Originally Posted by Prestidigitweeze
One of the great things about Alice Munro's win is that it brings attention back to the short story in an age when readers, agents, publishers and critics seem interested in the novel above all else. A miniaturist's commitment to writing well can be at least as profound as a novelist's.
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I have never read anything by Alice Munro, but your comments reminded me of a recent book of short fiction by Josephine Rowe called
How A Moth Becomes A Boat. Some of these stories are near a single page long without feeling "stripped", and I recall them with an admittedly unreliable memory as being very beautiful, sombre, sometimes painful (is "painful" the right word? It seems right, but I mean it in a good way). And it was their brevity that made them beautiful - a full experience in so few pages.
Why I didn't bounce from that into more short stories, I don't know. But Alice Munro's award and what has been said here may be the prompting I need.
Cheers, and thanks,
Marc