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. - Heidi Pitlor

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.

But what happens if and when writers begin to outnumber readers? What happens when writing becomes more attractive than reading? Will we become — or are we already — a nation of performers with no audience?

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