A.O. Scott Talks About William Maxwell

The Book Review

The New York Times

Books, Arts

4.2 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Scott discusses the novelist and story writer, and Eyal Press talks about “Dirty Work.”

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0:00.0	What makes William Maxwell one of our great American writers?
0:12.3	A.O. Scott will be here to talk about his latest essay in our series, The Americans.
0:20.0	How does the necessity of morally compromised labor implicate us all?
0:25.1	A.O. Press will be here to talk about his new book, Dirty Work.
0:30.4	Alexander Alter will be here with the latest in publishing news.
0:34.7	Plus, our critics will talk to us about what they're reviewing.
0:39.2	This is the Book Review Podcast in the New York Times.
0:41.7	It's August 27th. I'm Pamela Paul.
0:50.3	A.O. Scott joins us now from Maine to talk about the latest in his series, The America.
0:55.1	The subject this time around is William Maxwell.
0:58.6	Tony, thanks for being here.
1:00.5	Great to be here, Pamela.
1:02.5	Who is William Maxwell?
1:04.1	William Maxwell may be best known in some ways for his day job, not for his writing.
1:09.4	He was a fiction editor at The New Yorker for many decades.
1:12.6	And in a way, even if he had never published anything under his own name,
1:17.3	he would have been an influential figure in American writing.
1:20.6	He edited John Uptike, Mary McCarthy, JD Salinger,
1:23.9	many of the luminaries of The New Yorker in its mid-century glory years.
1:29.1	But he was also a novelist.
1:31.1	He published five novels and many volumes of short stories in his long career
1:37.2	that started in the mid-30s and went up almost to his death in 2000.
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