Category Archives: Alice Munro

Thoughts on Writers’ Workspaces and on Alice Munro’s “The Office”

Posted on March 16, 2014 by lfpbe

There’s no question that Alice Munro’s short story “The Office” – from her first collection, Dance of the Happy Shades, published in 1968 – was written with Virginia Woolf in mind. The story’s opening paragraph is an arrow pointing directly … Continue reading →

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A Review of Alice Munro’s The View from Castle Rock

Posted on February 9, 2014 by lfpbe

I bought a copy of The View from Castle Rock when it was first published in 2006, and I read about half of it before putting it aside. I just didn’t like it – and I was well aware that … Continue reading →

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