![]() ![]() ![]() “In this interview William Maxwell at one juncture urges that the subject under discussion veer away from The New Yorker, on the grounds that the magazine has been almost done to death, in one book or another. ![]() One of his colleagues at The New Yorker, Brendan Gill, has supplied the following report on his friend: The rapture with which he recited Eliot did. The decor did not suggest Maxwell’s profession. The spacious room was furnished austerely-two vases of flowers stood on the mantel, a piano occupied one corner. At the end of the living room, two large windows looked out on the street, eight floors below, where one could see the morning traffic, but not hear it. Twice he rose and went to the walnut bookcase, once for Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts, and then for Eliot’s Four Quartets, which he studied patiently for the lines he needed. A tall, spare man, he sat on the edge of a low sofa, his knees nearly touching his chin. He wore a tie and blazer for the occasion. William Maxwell was interviewed in his East Side New York apartment. Interviewed by John Seabrook Issue 85, Fall 1982 ![]()
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