Archival drafts of Callaghan’s stories, and letters from his New Yorker editors reveal that the magazine often would add New York-specific details to, or remove details that suggested a Canadian context from, his stories of urban life. So while Munro sets much of her fiction in rural Huron County, earlier New Yorker authors had to fight to break through geographical restrictions that no longer existed by the time she started publishing in the magazine. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
