YOUR COMMUNITY in brief Oct 21, 2008
Professor William Maxwell will address the faculty and students at a book-signing at 2 p.m. Thursday at Oregon State University, in the Memorial Union s La Raza Room, Corvallis. Maxwell is a 1952 graduate of Oregon State College and the author of Super Parenting: Child Rearing for the New Millennium. (Albany Democrat-Herald, OR)
Book Buzz: 'Rules' gives Silva his best debut Jul 31, 2008
But they may not know that William Maxwell's So Long, See You Tomorrow also was an influence ... William Maxwell: Later Novels and Stories ($35), to be published in September, includes So Long.. (USA Today -- Life)
rewarding award...For Natasha Tall, all the world's a stage May 22, 2008
Other winners included: the Parent Volunteers of the Trumansburg Community Nursery School; the Community Advisory Board of the MacCormick Secure Center in the Town of Caroline; Ithaca residents Sue Hemsath, William Maxwell, Mary George Opperman and Valerie Gyrisco; and Dryden resident Wendy Martin. Ithaca Times 2008. (Ithaca Times, NY)
Blew’s 'Jackalope’ is Western demise minus cartoon feel Apr 21, 2008
Already, reviewers are comparing Blew s fiction to that of Larry McMurtry, Willa Cather and William Maxwell. Novelist Ron Hansen thought enough of it to include Jackalope Dreams in the University of Nebraska s Flyover Fiction series, which he edited. (Missoulian, MT)
Book Review: Keith Gessen's 'All the Sad Young Literary Men' Apr 12, 2008
Some editors, like William Maxwell, are novelists no matter how they earn their living, while others, like Cyril Connolly, appear to be utterly brutalized by their own high standards. In "The Rock Pool," Connolly's 1936 novel of snobbery and ambition in the South of France, the great editor and critic wished to capture the hedonism of his artistic generation. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
• Flood victims use respite to salvage what they can Mar 26, 2008
Kathy Greer and boyfriend William Maxwell moved into their home several years ago, drawn by the area's rolling hills and rural friendliness. It was safe here, Greer said, nearly 130 miles south of the bustle of St. Louis. (Q13.com, WA)
'A Step from Death' is a memoir full of poetry Mar 25, 2008
Woiwode worked with acclaimed New Yorker editor William Maxwell and includes amusing lore from that relationship. He has published many short stories and two novels. (Christian Science Monitor)
Light, shadow in a long-ago Midwest Feb 11, 2008
This year marks the 100th anniversary of William Maxwell's birth and the publication by the Library of America of the first of two volumes of his work (the second will appear this autumn) ... In addition to nine short stories, a couple of the author's introductions, and an address, the present volume, "William Maxwell: Early Novels and Stories" ($35), contains four novels. (Boston Globe)
The man who likes to say yes Dec 16, 2007
In an obituary of William Maxwell, his long-time fiction editor, who died at 92 without ever having seen New York attacked, Updike offers words that would apply with equal ease to himself. He had a gift for affection, and another - or was it the same gift. (Guardian Unlimited)
History, lore reader favourites Dec 11, 2007
The very public feud between the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in New Brunswick and the descendants of William Maxwell Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook, may have been partly resolved but who was this philanthropist and what was the controversial fight for ownership of some of the world s most famous paintings really about. Beaverbrook: A Shattered Legacy (Goose Lane, $ 35) by journalist Jacques Poitras is the book in which to find the answers. (ChronicleHerald.ca)
RADIO HIGHLIGHTS Jun 24, 2007
5): Selected Shorts: John Shea reads "One Christmas" by Truman Capote; Tony Roberts reads "Occurrence on the Six-Seventeen" by George Shephard; and Keir Dullea reads "Homecoming" by William Maxwell. 9 p.m. KPFA-FM (94. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Taking Names Apr 11, 2007
Previous PEN/Malamud Award winners include John Updike, Saul Bellow, Eudora Welty, Stuart Dybek and William Maxwell, Joyce Carol Oates, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Ann Beattie, Nathan Englander, Tobias Wolff and Adam Haslett. Wild' founder jailed Joe Francis, founder of the infamous "Girls Gone Wild" video empire, was taken into custody by federal marshals in Florida yesterday to face a contempt-of-court citation after initially defying a federal judge, APreports. (Washington Times, DC)
Our readers speak Apr 5, 2007
Violet married John Elwess in 1917 in Saskatchewan, and William Maxwell in 1937 in Bozeman. The Maxwells lived in Ennis, where he worked at the dam; he died in December 1971. (Montana Standard, MT)
