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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- Full title :Conversations with William Maxwell / edited by Barbara Burkhardt.
Summary
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.
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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 (xxxi, 241 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781617032554, 1617032557
- oclc:ocn795124272
- LC Classification:PS3525.A9464
- Dewey Decimal:813/.54
Table of Contents
Handwritten notes for "The writer as illusionist" / William Maxwell (1955) -- An image of an image: Maxwell topic: autobiographical novelist / Bob Adams (1963) -- Remarks delivered at American Academy of Arts and Letters / William Maxwell (1969) -- Tribute to Vladimir Nabokov, recipient of the Award of Merit, American Academy of Arts and Letters / William Maxwell (1969) -- Introduction of Eudora Welty for her reading of "The demonstrators" at the American Academy of Arts and Letters / William Maxwell (1969) -- Remarks delivered at American Academy of Arts and Letters / William Maxwell (1970) -- Remarks delivered at the American Academy of Arts and Letters / William Maxwell (1971) -- Tribute to Zona Gale at the American Academy of Arts and Letters / William Maxwell (1972) -- Remarks on receiving honorary doctorate, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign / William Maxwell (1973) -- CA interviews the author / Jean W. Ross (1979) -- PW interviews William Maxwell / Robert Dahlin (1979) -- Remarks on receiving the William Dean Howells Medal, American Academy of Arts and Letters / William Maxwell (1980) -- Novelist preserves youth / Gordon McKerral (1981) -- William Maxwell: the art …
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