Conversations with William Maxwell
Conversations with William Maxwell collects thirty-eight interviews, public speeches, and remarks that span five decades of the esteemed novelist and New Yorker editor's career. The interviews collectively address the entirety of Maxwell's literary work--with in-depth discussion of his short stories, essays, and novels including They Came Like Swallows, The Folded Leaf, and the American Book award-winning So Long, See You Tomorrow--as well as his forty-year tenure as a fiction editor working wi…
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Conversations with William Maxwell collects thirty-eight interviews, public speeches, and remarks that span five decades of the esteemed novelist and New Yorker editor's career. The interviews collectively address the entirety of Maxwell's literary work--with in-depth discussion of his short stories, essays, and novels including They Came Like Swallows, The Folded Leaf, and the American Book award-winning So Long, See You Tomorrow--as well as his forty-year tenure as a fiction editor working with such luminaries as John Updike, John Cheever, Eudora Welty, Vladimir Nabokov, and J.D. Salinger. M.
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- Publication Date:2012.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):University Press of Mississippi
- Place of Publication:Jackson
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2012.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (274 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781617032554, 1617032557
- oclc:ocn795695059
- LC Classification:PS3525.A9464 Z46 2012
- Dewey Decimal:813.54
Table of Contents
Cover; Contents; Introduction; Chronology; Handwritten Notes for "The Writer as Illusionist"; An Image of an Image: Maxwell Topic: Autobiographical Novelist; Remarks Delivered at American Academy of Arts and Letters; Tribute to Vladimir Nabokov, Recipient of the Award of Merit, American Academy of Arts and Letters; Introduction of Eudora Welty for Her Reading of "The Demonstrators" at the American Academy of Arts and Letters; Remarks Delivered at American Academy of Arts and Letters; Remarks Delivered at the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Tribute to Zona Gale at the American Academy of Arts and LettersRemarks on Receiving Honorary Doctorate, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; CA Interviews the Author; PW Interviews William Maxwell; Remarks on Receiving the William Dean Howells Medal, American Academy of Arts and Letters; Novelist Preserves Youth; William Maxwell: The Art of Fiction; GLR Interview: William Maxwell; Tribute to Robert Fitzgerald at American Academy of Arts and Letters; The Quiet Man; Interviews with William Maxwell; Imagining the Middle West: An Interview with William Maxwell; Past Perfect.
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