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The Writer as Illusionist: Uncollected & Unpublished Work (Nonpareil Books, 11)
1567927963 epub Illuminating . . . Handling strong emotionsshame, love, griefwithout fuss, Maxwell gives the bald facts of life a poignant shimmer.Wall Street Journal As a fiction editor at The New Yorker from 1936 to 1975, William Maxwell helped shaped several generations sense of the literary short story. At the same time, Maxwell himself was also an exceptional novelist, short story writer, essayist, childrens author, and memoirist. Given unique, unfettered access to Maxwells private papers, Alec Wilksonwhose memoir My Mentor explores his twenty-five-year friendship with Maxwellhas gathered a stunning and revealing collection of some of Maxwells lesser-known and previously unpublished works of nonfiction and fiction. Read more