Category: Inspiration and Creativity

• A Grand Plotline

  

  I am reading Ancestors, by William Maxwell. Or I should confess I am skimming a lot of it, because it does get boring. It is about Maxwell’s family genealogy, and likely only published in 1971 because he was a celebrated author and fiction editor of the New Yorker Magazine for thirty-nine years. Wikipedia lists his…

  CurtissAnn

  June 4, 2025

  Books, Family, Inspiration and Creativity, Writing Life

  genealogy, short stories, vignettes, William Maxwell