Make it interesting and it will be true: this is what story writers live by. - Heidi Pitlor

I said I had a three-year-old with broken fingers, and you said, ‘Maybe he owed somebody money.’” “Yes,

Furthermore, in a new study reported in the journal Science, subjects who read Alice Munro stories — specifically, the collection Too Much Happiness — demonstrated sharper social and psychological insight than those who did not.

Mom’s got this secret fear that if you don’t control your life, if you don’t control your man, he will eventually destroy you.