“To write, as everyone knows, you need a typewriter, or at least a pencil, some paper, a table and chair; I have all these things in a corner of my bedroom. But now I want an office as well."
- Alice Munro, “The Office”
From Nobel Laureate Alice Munro, "The Office” is a brilliantly executed and revelatory story—one of the earliest published works of her career—in which one woman’s simply finding a place to write turns out to be the hardest act of all.