Carolyn Cooke's new story collection is Amor and Psycho. For Publishers Weekly, she named ten legendary short story collections, including:Selected Stories by Alice MunroRead about another book on the list.
Munro’s stories feel expansive, but are in fact masterpieces of compression. On the inside cover of my brutally used copy of Munro’s Selected Stories (1996) is written: “She is an insight machine.” A few Munro sentences can capture a provincial girl in itchy clothes waiting for the Canadian National Railroad to take her to her destiny--while some cosmic rearview mirror unfurls the whole arc of a life.
--Marshal Zeringue
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