<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/7058393f-f3da-40e8-898c-b31e144542dc/487FD936-D349-40A8-8E3D-F02BE3BCCB07/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://marksarvas.blogs.com/elegvar/2006/06/munro_to_retire.html" href="http://marksarvas.blogs.com/elegvar/2006/06/munro_to_retire.html" style="font-size: 11px;">marksarvas.blogs.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://marksarvas.blogs.com/elegvar/2006/06/munro_to_retire.html"><DIV id="entry-11174614" class="entry"> <H3 class="entry-header">MUNRO TO RETIRE?</H3> <DIV class="entry-content"> <DIV class="entry-body"> <P>Is Alice Munro fixing to <A href="http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=ef94540b-f8b6-4441-8b44-400ab5d17786&k=1171">hang up her pen</A>?</P><BLOCKQUOTE dir="ltr"><P>Canadian literary icon Alice Munro is expected to announce at a Toronto fundraiser tonight that she has written her last book.</p> <P>Munro is scheduled to give a reading at a benefit and book launch for Writing Life, a PEN Canada anthology of essays from 50 Canadian and international authors that is scheduled to hit stores July 1. In her contribution to the volume, Munro cites a tremor in her writing nerves in the face of constant interruptions and advancing age. (She will be 75 next month.) She says she can quit writing "in the interests of a manageable life" and with the knowledge that it's rare for outstanding work to be produced in a author's later years, "so one or two books fewer won't really be anybody's loss."</P></BLOCKQUOTE> </DIV> <A id="more"></A> <DIV class="entry-more"> </DIV> </DIV> <P class="entry-footer"> <SPAN class="post-footers">Posted by TEV at 12:20 AM in <A href="http://marksarvas.blogs.com/elegvar/litlinks/index.html">Litlinks</A> </SPAN> <SPAN class="separator">|</SPAN> <A href="http://marksarvas.blogs.com/elegvar/2006/06/munro_to_retire.html" class="permalink">Permalink</A> </p> </DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/487FD936-D349-40A8-8E3D-F02BE3BCCB07/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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