Short Story Long: Adoring Alice Munro

A writer’s writer who condensed the power of the novel into her short stories, does Alice Munro offer a model for the fiction writing of the future?

Beth Riungu
Age of Empathy
6 min readMay 19, 2024

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A small, hexagonal, 18th-century teahouse, painted bright yellow. with red and turquoise trim. Surrounded by bare wintery trees and set in a bright moss-green lawn.
Colorful Secret Lives — Photo by the author

When I heard that Alice Munro had died, I drove down to the library to beat the rush. There were five volumes of her work on the shelf below Morrison

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Beth Riungu
Age of Empathy

Essayist and short storyist. Subscribe at https://tinyurl.com/BRwrites for reflections on reading, writing, and running around without glasses.