The Writer Who Understood Aloneness Mavis Gallant’s short stories are about people, especially women, who prefer to live on the social margins. I cherish one of them most of all. By Vivian Gornick
Great short stories are sometimes said to be as rich as novels. Mavis Gallant’s are like encyclopedias—of her characters’ psyches and lives.
Mavis Gallant In The New Yorker
Quotable – Mavis Gallant - Writers Write
Internationally celebrated, award-winning author Mavis Gallant is a contemporary legend: an undisputed master of the short story whose peerless prose captures the range of human experience while evoking time and place with unequalled skill. This new selection of Gallant's stories, edited by novelist and poet Michael Ondaatje, gathers the best of her many stories set in Paris, where Gallant has long lived. Here she writes of expatriates and locals, exile and homecoming, and of the illusions of yo
Mavis Gallant In The New Yorker
Here is a small selection of Mavis Gallant’s one hundred and fourteen short stories published in the magazine.
Purchased February 26, 2023 at Rodgers Book Barn. Finished December 1, 2024
Mavis Gallant In The New Yorker
“Stories are not chapters of novels. They should not be read one after another, as if they were meant to follow along. Read one. Shut the book...” / Mavis Gallant
A manuscript page from a forthcoming Mavis Gallant novel : http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/838/the-art-of-fiction-no-160-mavis-gallant
Mavis Gallant’s “The Fenton Child” – Buried In Print
Home Truths : Selected Canadian Stories by Mavis by Pistilbooks
An Appreciation of the Under-appreciated Mavis Gallant
Writer Mavis Gallant Portrayed 'Lost Souls' of Post-WWII Europe