Opening Paragraphs Don’t Always Have to Be Exciting
Joe Fassler
In her conversation for this series, Ruskovich discussed Alice Munro’s “The Love of a Good Woman,” a novella that begins in the least flashy way possible: on the musty shelves of a local museum, with descriptions of the objects displayed there.
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