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| September 01, 2003 | Seaman, Donna | COPYRIGHT 2003 American Library Association. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Sept. 2003. 336p. Houghton, $24 (0-618-12311-3). 081

In My Mentor (2002), longtime New Yorker writer Wilkinson paid tribute to the late great William Maxwell, the man who taught him to Write, and Wilkinson's original profiles of Maxwell grace this impressive, even thrilling essay collection, a showcase for his uniquely studied insouciance, driving curiosity, and covert metaphysical inquiry. In his "cameos," Wilkinson appears to be casual and charming but is, in fact, intently precise and shrewdly observant. Confessing his broken dream of being a rock-and-roll musician, ...

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