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...Alice Munro spins tales that show us, again and again, and with wondrous grace, how much can be done in a simple short story. Yet the 74-year-old Canadian does it by breaking every rule ever taught in a writing seminar, setting up a master class along the sidelines. Her latest--her 11th--collection of stories, The View from Castle Rock (Knopf; 349 pages), marks a departure from her usual examinations of women in rural Canada leaving home to remake their possibilities by drawing instead on family documents, historical records (from 19th century Scotland) and what feels like memoir...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: How to Write A Short Story | 11/5/2006 | See Source »

...assume you know more than your characters do, or condescend, even to children. A young girl, Munro's alter ego, tells an affluent employer how, where she comes from, "children walked barefoot until the frost came in order to save on shoe leather" and people ate "dandelion leaves, nothing else, for supper." Just as we're shaking, she admits (to us only) that not all of this is strictly true--and so tells us as much about the sly, storytelling imagination of the girl as about rural circumstances that really were desperate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: How to Write A Short Story | 11/5/2006 | See Source »

...wrote to Lowell on Jan. 24, 1928 that “all reliable data that I can gather indicate that substantially all of the students were here and at work.” Yet even in its earliest inception, reading period was far from perfect. Evidence from William B. Munro, the professor of Government 17 in 1928, suggests that the ample free time of reading period could damage the standing of already less competent students. He found that the extra time improved the grades of students already earning As and Bs, but that coursework done after reading period resulted...

Author: By A. HAVEN Thompson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Constructing the Period | 5/18/2006 | See Source »

...right of the picture, wearing red state colors, are the Gornickes: Travis (Jeff Daniels), MaryJo (Kristin Chenoweth) and their kids. They like to sing hymns, eat organ meat and are full of mindless pep. They are also, of course, the Munro?s worst nightmare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Found in America | 4/28/2006 | See Source »

...course, a reassuring - though not necessarily a provable - thought. And the movie cheats a little with the Gornickes. They turn out to be better educated than they appear to be. They have chosen their bus, and their home-schooled children are both smarter and less anxious than the Munro kids. On the other hand, if we are truly an open society, we have to be open to learn to reserve judgment, to entertain the possibility that things (and people) are not necessarily what they seem at first glance to be. That thought sometimes applies to movies as well. Maybe this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Found in America | 4/28/2006 | See Source »

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