Alice Munro in her kitchen in Clinton, Ontario. The acclaimed short-story writer, who will turn 82 next week, recently announced she is probably done writing. Charles McGrath writes that Ms. Munro “has talked this way before,” but insists she’s serious this time. “There will be no more books after ‘Dear Life,’ she said, and the four autobiographical stories that conclude the book — retellings, in a way, of ones with which she began her career — will be her last. ‘Put your money on it,’ she said.”

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　　圖片為愛麗絲·門羅女士在她安大略省的廚房里。這位備受贊譽的短篇小說作家，下周將要迎來她的82歲，近日她宣布她可能會封筆。查爾斯·麥格拉思寫道：門羅女士“以前確實表達過停筆的意思”，但他相信，她這次認真的。 “在Dear Life之后，不會有更多的新書出版了”她說，這四本自傳體故事將是她最后的作品。