Conversations with William Maxwell

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 wit