Criticism

Alice Munro is widely recognized as being among the greatest living authors writing in English, and her latest volume of stories, just now being released in paperback, inspires, as the title suggests, almost Too Much Happiness—her thirteenth book in a nearly sixty-year career. The collection reads with the headlong rush of both a thriller and a romance. In ten stories, told with equal power and precision from male and female perspectives, Munro explores how people do and don't move on with their lives after losing what they thought they couldn't live without.

Written interviews are just one of many small changes we must reckon with as publishing and literature sail into uncharted territory.

Four months ago, I was hopeful about it. How does the 2010 edition fare?

The internet is filled with gossip, hucksterism, schlock, back-biting, and valueless aggregation about the publishing industry. Poets & Writers magazine is a diamond in the junk.