Conversations with William Maxwell - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 149685795X ISBN 13 : 9781496857958

Editeur : University Press of Mississippi, 2024

Synopsis

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 Maxwell’s words spoken before a crowd, some previously unpublished, pay moving tribute to literary friends and mentors, and offer reflections on the artistic life, the process of writing, and his midwestern heritage.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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University Press of Mississippi
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 149685795X
• ISBN 13: 9781496857958
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 274
• Éditeur: Burkhardt Barbara
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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