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Alice Munro on writing about life, love, sex and secrets
Alice Munro on writing about life, love, sex and secrets
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53 minutes
Released:
May 19, 2024
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Podcast episode
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In 2004, just before she won the Scotiabank Giller Prize (for the second time) for her story collection, Runaway, Alice Munro met Eleanor Wachtel at a restaurant near the author's home to discuss her new book, her interest in writing about infidelity and sex and her life growing up in Wingham, Ontario. The acclaimed Canadian short story writer, and Canada's first winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, died on May 13, 2024.
Released:
May 19, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (26)
How writing helped Lore Segal survive a traumatic wartime childhood: At 95, Lore Segal has been writing for almost sixty years. The author of Other People's Houses, Half the Kingdom and Shakespeare's Kitchen, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Segal's latest book is called Ladies' Lunch and Other Stories. It's been named a New Yorker Best Book of the Year. *This interview originally aired Oct. 20, 2013. by Writers and Company