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In 2009, Ms. Munro revealed that she had undergone coronary bypass surgery and been treated for cancer, but she said that her health now was good -- or rather, not too bad. \"That's how we talk in Canada,\" she explained. \"You don't say to someone, 'You're looking well.' You say, 'You don't seem so bad.\"' The great recent upheaval in her life, she added, was the death in April of her second husband, Gerald Fremlin, to whom she was \"tremendously close.\" \"To me, it's the most interesting place in the world,\" Ms. Munro said. \"I suppose that's because I know more about it. I find it endlessly fascinating.\" She added, though, that Huron County had changed since she began writing. \"People are more aware now of cities and of different ways of life,\" she explained. \"I suppose the writing I do is a bit in the past, and I'm not sure it's the kind of writing I would do if I were starting now.\" Critics have often called Ms. Munro's stories novels in miniature, a compliment she resists a little. \"We can do without that word 'miniature,\"' she said sharply, but then added that for years she was not content writing short stories. \"While working on my first five books, I kept wishing I was writing a novel,\" she said. \"I thought until you wrote a novel, you weren't taken seriously as a writer. It used to trouble me a lot, but nothing troubles me now, and besides, there has been a change. I think short stories are taken more seriously now than they were.\"