Alice Munro - Writing Her Lives

Island,”
Love
117, 140. DG to AC , May 6, 1998: M&s. DG to VB , February 12, 1998, VB to DG , March 9, 1998: M&s. Interview Jack Hodgins, April 21, 2004. Judy Stoffman, “Celebrating Alice Munro,”
Toronto Star
, November 1, 1998: D9. Judy Stoffman, “Munro Wins Giller,”
Toronto Star
, November 4, 1998: D1, D4. National Book Critics: Kelly Heckler to “Everyone”: March 9, 1999: M&S.
    14. Aritha van Herk, “Between the Stirrup and the Ground”: 49, 50, 52. Michael Gorra, “Crossing the Threshold”: 6, 7. Frank, “Fiction in Review”: 168, 173–74. Following Updike, Frank also comments that Munro’s
Selected Stories
“seemed to come out of nowhere, with no explanation of why the stories were selected and without any attempt to present them within the context of her extraordinary development as a writer” (166). Barbara Croft, “Indirect Objects”: 15, 16. “Less Is More”: 14. Tamsin Todd, “The Love of a Good Woman”: 54, 55.
    15. AM to Helen Hoy, November 9, 1987: Private collection. AM , “Introduction,”
Selected Stories: passim
. “Spaceships Have Landed,”
Paris Review:
276–77.
Open Secrets
proof: 752/04.3: 6.3. “Working for a Living”: 38.10.36.4.f4.
Chapter 9
    1. “Introduction,”
Selected Stories:
xiii–xiv. Gzowski
Globe and Mail
interview: F4. “Home”: 153. A.S. Byatt, “Justice for Willa Cather”: 53. Judy Stoffman, “Munro Wins Giller,”
Toronto Star
, November 4, 1998: D1, D4. Judy Stoffman, “Authors Fest Numbers Rise,”
Toronto Star
, November 1, 2004: F2. Andrea Baille, “Munro Awarded Second Giller,”
Toronto Star
, November 12, 2004: A3.
    2. “The Albanian Virgin,”
Open:
105. Gzowski
Globe and Mail
interview: F4. Prize information: M&s. Health: Douglas Gibson, “A Very Canadian Celebrity”: 10. AM , August 22, 2001.
    3. Buford proofs: “Post and Beam,” “Family Furnishings,” “Lying Under the Apple Tree.” Deborah Treisman to AM , July 9, 2001:
New Yorker
Files. Interview Deborah Treisman, March 10, 2004. “Best fiction out there”: Jonathan Bing, “The Write Stuff,”
Variety
, October 30, 2002.
    4. Douglas Gibson, “A Very Canadian Celebrity”: 9–10. M&S print run: DG to VB , January 7, 2002. Bestseller:
Globe and Mail
, October 13, 2001: M&s. Mona Simpson, “A Quiet Genius”: 128, 133, 134, 135. “Family Furnishings,”
Hateship:
117. Ann Beattie, “Alice Munro’s Amazing Ordinary World”: D3. Merilyn Simonds, “Munro’s Wit Is Undiminished”: I1. Philip Marchand, “The Way Things Are”: D12. Catherine Lockerbie, “The Loving Literature of Alice Munro”: C15. Lorrie Moore, “Artship”: 41, 42. Tom Deignan, “Life in a Sentence”: 26, 27. Franklin, “Assent and Lamentation”: 33, 36, 37. Michael Ravitch, “Fiction in Review”: 160, 161, 164, 165, 170. Benjamin Markovits, “Suspicion of Sentiment”: 26. John McGahern, “Heroines of Their Lives”: 23, 24.
    5. Patricia Hluchy, “Alice Munro”: 67. Ross and Carol Hamilton, “Story of Munro’s Early Life Indicates Star in the Making,”
Wingham Advance-Times
, December 23, 1998. Brenda Burke, “Alice Munro Collection Planned for Museum,”
Wingham Advance-Times
, January 13, 1999. Catherine MacDonald, “More Suggestions Received on Ways to Recognize Alice Munro,”
Wingham Advance-Times
, January 20, 1999. Program, Dedication of “Alice Munro Literary Garden,” July 10, 2002. Judy Stoffman, “Jubilation in Jubilee,”
Toronto Star
, July 11, 2002: A28. Bennett: Stoffman and also Jessica Leeder, “Friends, Family Salute Munro’s Literary Garden,”
National Post
, July 11, 2002: A7. Virginia Barber, Remarks at Dedication of Alice Munro Literary Garden, July 10, 2002. AM , June 20, 2003.
    6. Barber quotation: Leeder, “Friends, Family Salute Munro’s Literary Garden.” Excised passage: “Lying Under the Apple Tree” proofs May 15, 2002. Deborah Treisman to AM , May 30, 2002. Photograph:
New Yorker
Files. “Lying Under the Apple Tree”: 88. “What Do You Want to Know For?”: 215. Simpson, “A Quiet Genius”: 131. AM , “Foreword,”
Castle Rock:
x. “Last book”: AM , April 23, 2004.
    7. DG to VB , August 17, 2000. VB to DG , August 25, 2000. DG to VB , October 28, 2002. VB to DG , November 5, 2002: M&S. Story Selection: e-mail David Staines, December 28, 2004. Jane Urquhart, “Afterword”: 416.
    8. Knopf first printing: Rev. of
Runaway, Publishers Weekly
. Philip Marchand, “Time Passing”: D13. Bruce Erskine, “Mastery of Munro”: