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2013., House of Anansi Press Edition: eBook ed. Summary Note: In honour of Alice Munro's Nobel Prize for Literature, Anansi Digital is re-releasing a candid interview with Munro by Canadian novelist Graeme Gibson.Taken from Eleven Canadian Novelists, which was originally published in 1973 by House of Anansi Press, the interview is a revealing and wide-ranging dialogue between two writers, and a rare view of Munro and her work.With the intuition of an insider, Gibson asks the important questions: In what way is writing important to you? Do writers know something special? Does he or she have any responsibility to society? The result is a fascinating and immensely readable conversation with the famed short story writer at the beginning of her career.
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-- Lives of mothers and daughtersc2001., McClelland & Stewart Call No: Bio M968L Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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-- Storytellers :c2011., ECW Press Edition: eBook ed. Summary Note: Spotlighting an extraordinary career, this autobiography reviews the authorœs accomplishments workingand playingalongside some of Canadaœs greatest writers. These humorous chronicles relate the projects he brainstormed for writer Barry Broadfoot, how he convinced eventual Nobel Prize contender Alice Munro to keep writing short stories, his early morning phone call from a former Prime Minister, and his recollection of yanking a manuscript right out of Alistair MacLeodœs own reluctant handswhich ultimately garnered MacLeod one of the worldœs most prestigious prizes for fiction. Insightful and entertaining, this collection of tales provides an inside view of Canadian politics and publishing that is rarely revealed, going behind the scenes and between the covers to divulge a treasure trove of literary adventures.
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-- Storytellers :c2011., ECW Press Call No: 070.92 G449s Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Spotlighting an extraordinary career, this autobiography reviews the authorœs accomplishments workingand playingalongside some of Canadaœs greatest writers. These humorous chronicles relate the projects he brainstormed for writer Barry Broadfoot, how he convinced eventual Nobel Prize contender Alice Munro to keep writing short stories, his early morning phone call from a former Prime Minister, and his recollection of yanking a manuscript right out of Alistair MacLeodœs own reluctant handswhich ultimately garnered MacLeod one of the worldœs most prestigious prizes for fiction. Insightful and entertaining, this collection of tales provides an inside view of Canadian politics and publishing that is rarely revealed, going behind the scenes and between the covers to divulge a treasure trove of literary adventures.