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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, ...