Vintage Munro: Nobel Prize Edition

"Alice Munro is often able to say more in 30 pages than an ordinary novelist is capable of in 300. She is a virtuoso of the elliptical . . . the master of the contemporary short story. . . . Munro, like few others, have come close to solving the greatest mystery of them all: the human heart and its caprices." The Nobel Prize in Literature 2013 - Presentation Speech

Her work felt revolutionary when I came to it, and it still does. Jhumpa Lahiri

She is one of the handful of writers, some living, most dead, whom I have in mind when I say that fiction is my religion. Jonthan Franzen

The authority she brings to the page is just lovely.   Elizabeth Strout

She s the most savage writer I ve ever read, also the most tender, the most honest, the most perceptive.   Jeffery Eugenides

Alice Munro can move characters through time in a way that no other writer can. Julian Barnes

She is a short-story writer who reimagined what a story can do.   Loorie Moore

There s probably no one alive who s better at the craft of the short story.   Jim Shepard

A true master of the form.   Salman Rushdie

A wonderful writer.   Joyce Carol Oates