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184. Rerun: William Maxwell - So Long, See You Tomorrow

April 04, 2023 by John Mitchinson

This is the fourth episode in our mini series of reruns - this time, we return to November 2016, where Costa First Book nominee for My Name Is Leon, Kit de Waal joins John & Andy to discuss So Long, See You Tomorrow, the final novel by author and New Yorker literary editor William Maxwell.

Books mentioned:
Andy Miller - The Year of Reading Dangerously
Kit de Waal - My Name is Leon; The Trick to Time; Without Warning and Only Sometimes; Six Foot Six
John Williams - Stoner
William Maxwell - So Long, See You Tomorrow; All the Days and Nights; Time Will Darken It; They Came Like Swallows; Ancestors: A Family History, The Outermost Dream
Brian Bilston - You Took the Last Bus Home: The Poems of Brian Bilston
Colin MacInnes - Absolute Beginners

Other Links:
Twitter’s Poet Laureate
Colin MacInnes podcast
Paris Review
“As I Get Older…”

April 04, 2023 /John Mitchinson
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