2/14/2023 0 Comments Love By William Maxwell Pdf![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His own prose also won many accolades, most importantly the American Book Award and the PEN/Malamud Award. (1908-2000).Ī child of the Midwest, Maxwell became the New Yorker’s fiction editor, reputed to have shaped many literary careers, including those of John Updike and Eudora Welty. Thankfully, a nowadays less widely read author sometimes also makes it onto these lists: William Keepers Maxwell, Jr. Many media thus provide those seeking guidance with reading list, covering every possible genre. Or sometimes we want to face an even deeper abyss, reflect on how much worse the situation could get (with, e.g., Katherine Anne Porter’s Pale Horse, Pale Rider), how much worse it once was (see Michael Buhler’s recent review of Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year ), or how much worse it never will be (Suzanne Collins’s Hunger Games, hopefully). The books we pick up in order to cope with the current crisis sometimes reflect a desire to escape, a desire that might be fulfilled by comedies, romances, and classic whodunits. “Coping” is arguably one of the most used verbs these days, heard as frequently as wishes for good health and safety. And nearly always, we need to understand in order to cope. We often read in order to understand, but sometimes we read in order to cope. ![]()
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