Alistair MacLeod: The World is Full of Exiles

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