Reviewers, fellow writers, and award juries seem to be lining up these days to sing the praises of Alice Munro. The latest to join that line is novelist Jonathan Franzen with a rhapsodic review in The New York Times of Munro’s latest collection. Franzen actually uses the occasion of Munro’s book to argue that she is not only one of the most underrated writers of the last century, but one of the best. He also makes a cogent argument for the continuing relevance of the short story form, going so far as to say that “a high percentage of the most exciting fiction written in the last 25 years — the stuff I immediately mention if somebody asks me what’s terrific — has been short fiction.”
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