Posted AT 11:53 PM EDT on 27/10/06
Lunch at Alice's restaurant
GODERICH, ONT. — Very soon after Alice Munro stepped out onstage at a literary reading in Dundee, Scotland, smiled and began to read one of her short stories, she understood that something was going wrong. This was more than two decades ago, yet she remembers this reading very well. “When I read, I usually get a laugh by the end of my first paragraph. But I didn't. Nor at the end of the second paragraph.
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