If you liked Munro before, you will really like her after visiting the Nobel Prize website and listening to this interview.
age and writing
I think we often put timeline-pressure on ourselves, particularly about what we hope to have published and when. Â Maybe the New Yorker puts it on us with its best under 40 issues.
Meanwhile, Alice Munro was 37 when she published her first book, according to her Wikipedia site.  I admire her for lots of things–sustaining tension, her dark regionalism–but one of my favorites is that she was born in 1931 and she’s still kicking. Hard.  She reminds me that I don’t have to rush progress and that it’s cool to stay alive and keep writing.
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Nora Bonner 