{"product_id":"a-william-maxwell-portrait-memories-and-appreciations-0393057712","title":"A William Maxwell Portrait: Memories and Appreciations","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0393057712\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Baxter, Charles\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThree generations of writers celebrate a master whose life and work continue to reverberate in contemporary letters. William Maxwell, who died in July 2000, was revered as one of the twentieth century's great American writers and a longtime fiction editor at The New Yorker. Now writers who knew Maxwell and were inspired by him-both the man and his work-offer intimate essays, most specifically written for this volume, that \"bring him back to life, right there in front of us.\"Alec Wilkinson writes of Maxwell as mentor; Edward Hirsch remembers him in old age; Charles Baxter illuminates the magnificent novel So Long, See You Tomorrow; Ben Cheever recalls Maxwell and his own father; Donna Tartt vividly describes Maxwell's kindness to herself as a first novelist; and Michael Collier admires him as a supreme literary correspondent. Other appreciations include insightful pieces by Alice Munro, Anthony Hecht, a poem by John Updike, and a brief tribute from Paula Fox. Ending this splendid collection is Maxwell himself, in the unpublished speech \"The Writer as Illusionist.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51855929803040,"sku":"NEW0393057712","price":24.37,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/71EQ134mdsL.jpg?v=1781543913","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/a-william-maxwell-portrait-memories-and-appreciations-0393057712","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}