I have discovered William Maxwell. I knew vaguely that he
had been a New Yorker editor working with such writers as Salinger, Cheever, and Updike, but I knew nothing about his
fiction. I just read his second novel, They
Came Like Swallows, which is a delightful book. You can tell he was a fan
of Virginia Woolf, and the Midwestern family he shows us has a similar kind of
dependence on the mother to keep their world right-side up that you see in To the Lighthouse. That’s all I’ll tell
you, in case you haven’t read him. I’ll be reading The Folded Leaf next.
Sunday, February 15, 2015
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