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Interview

Volume 20, Number 1 (1995)

Alistair MacLeod: The World is Full of Exiles

  • Laurie Kruk
Submitted
May 22, 2008
Published
1995-01-01

Abstract

Alistair MacLeod talks about his work on his novel, No Great Mischief If They Fall (recently published as No Great Mischief), and compares short story writing to a "hundred-yard dash" while novel writing is a walk to Montreal (presumably from Windsor). He claims that some of the best writing being done in Canada is by short-story writers. The writer situates himself in the realist tradition and cites the importance of landscape, orality, and "the ring of authenticity" to his work.