THERE WON’T BE ANOTHER SHORT STORY WRITER HER EQUAL
Storytellers come and go, but Alice Munro is forever.
The immensely gifted Canadian writer, whose death at 92 leaves us bereft, could put you into a time and place faster than a speeding sentence. Simultaneously introducing you to characters you might love or hate or question — but you knew them.
By the time I did an MFA in short fiction (USF Class of ‘00,) teachers had begun to favor other great writers with styles all over the place. Munro kept right on creating stories with beginnings, middles and ends and no one ever displaced her in my heart.
She was also gracious to a fault. Once, finishing a book of stories, I sent her a note just saying what an inspiration she was. And got a note in return.
Thanks, Ms. Munro, for the enduring memories.
