Conversations with William Maxwell by Barbara Burkhardt

Conversations with William Maxwell by Barbara Burkhardt

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 Maxwel’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. Maxwell’s words spoken before a crowd, some previously unpublished, pay moving tribute to literary friends and mentors, and offer reflections on the artistic life, the process of writing, and his midwestern heritage. All retain the reserved poignancy of his fiction. The volume publishes for the first time the full transcript of Maxwell’s extensive interviews with his biographer and, in an introduction, correspondence with writers including Updike and Saul Bellow, which enlivens the stories behind his interviews and appearances.

Barbara Burkhardt is professor emerita of English at University of Illinois Springfield and author of William Maxwell: A Literary Life.

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ISBN 13	9781496857958
ISBN 10	149685795X
Title	Conversations with William Maxwell
Author	Barbara Burkhardt
Series	Literary Conversations Series
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	University Press of Mississippi
Year published	2024-09-16
Number of pages	274
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