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Review: Alice Munro’s “Runaway”

“The mind’s a weird piece of business,” Alice Munro observes toward the end of this magnificent collection of stories (308). Munro is certainly right about that; her perspicacious and adroit writing shows that she understands human quirks and foibles better than most writers, even the exceptional ones. My initial reaction to many of the stories […]

Quotes 4-10-2015

“The mind’s a weird piece of business.” ––Runaway: Stories, by Alice Munro, pg. 308   “If you can accept that a person without a penis can peaceably live life as they please (including as a man), then you should be able to accept that a person without a physical form can peaceably live life as […]