Interview by Eleanor Wachtel, Writers & Company1

Alice Munro has been called a writer’s writer and many writers both in Canada and internationally do love and admire her work. But Alice Munro is also a reader’s writer. She writes with such intelligence, depth and compassion, carrying her readers with her in her explorations of character in search of some kind of understanding, no neat resolutions, just trying to figure things out, in an elegant, moving way. Whenever I see that The New Yorker has a story by Alice Munro, I save it up as a tre...