“Growing old has, like a trip through a difficult country, endowed Alice Munro with all manner of new information, and she has begun to file her dispatches.”
- Only So Many Words Remain: On Alice Munro’s Dear Life by Ben Dolnick
“Which is to say: contemporary greatness is a strange thing. Alice Munro’s books are reviewed right there beside Ann Patchett and Richard Russo’s; they’re set on the New Releases table between the latest from Jane Smiley and Dave Eggers. But they’re of a different order, they’re made of different stuff. The Mona Simpson quote that appears on many of Munro’s paperbacks (“The living writer most likely to be read in a hundred years,”) seems truer than ever, and it gives an air of preemptive nostalgia to the act of reading her. Soon enough it will seem very strange, almost miraculous, that we could go to the store to buy a new book by Alice Munro.”
- Only So Many Words Remain: On Alice Munro’s Dear Life by Ben Dolnick
