Others, such as my favorite living short-story writer, Alice Munro, may start with a memory.

WSJ: Ron Rash, Author of Serena and Nothing Gold Can Stay, on Inspiration | Word Craft

An incomplete list: Joy Williams, Stuart Dybek, Anne Carson, Alice Munro, Mary Gaitskill, Lydia Davis, Bhanu Kapil, Deborah Eisenberg, Edward P.

NEWYORKER: Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

The other winners are Albanian writer Ismail Kadare (2005), Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe (2007) and Canadian short story writer Alice Munro (2009).

BBC: Man Booker International prize goes to Lydia Davis

Kelly received a call from Alice Munro Haagensen, Rockland County's then-92-year-old historian.

FORBES: Lost and Found

Lorrie Moore makes one want to quote her endlessly, just as Alice Munro makes one want to turn her plots over and over.

ECONOMIST: Shorter fiction

The three men serve as guides and bodyguards for Cora and Alice Munro (Madeleine Stowe and Jodhi May), the maidenly daughters of a British officer.

NEWYORKER: The Last of the Mohicans

Kitson won the Perrier Comedy Award in 2002, at the age of twenty-five, and his gift is for the crafting of exquisite narratives, shows shaped like Alice Munro stories, bathetic and beautiful.

NEWYORKER: Dead Man Laughing

An earlier movie by Polley, Away From Her, stood out as well but had the beneift of an Alice Munro story as the source material and Julie Christie as the star.

FORBES: Sarah Polley's Little Canadian Waltz

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