Alice Munro, Short Story Writer
Last year, my mother Ellen sent me a care package (I'm sure I had some underwear in there, definitely some bills, and perhaps a letter written on the back of an envelope). In the box was a book she thought I should read: Women & Fiction,* by Susan Cahill (edited). Some nights before bed, when I want a break from novel reading, I pick up the book and read through it. Two nights ago, I read a fantastic story in the book by Alice Munro, called "The Office." I've been trying to find a link to the story, but was only able, instead, to find her story, "Chance", published in The New Yorker(someday, my story will be too. Wahoo!).
"The Office" is about Alice Munro, writer, but also housewife. She writes of the day she decided to tell her husband that she needs an office, and she goes to get one, but though she writes in it, and though she has her own space, her career space, she's a mother--and men can't let her work the way men would let other men work. It was a fantastic short story.
For more info about her, here is an interview done through Random House Books.
*Please take note that from here on out, my links to books are through Barnes and Noble rather than Amazon. I recently discovered that Amazon gave more monies to the Republicans this last election while Barnes and Noble were huge Democratic supporters--and so am I.
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