JULY
MAD.
SQ. READS
The Wisest, Kindest Voice:
A Celebration of the Work and Life
of William Maxwell
Featuring Christopher
Carduff, Benjamin
Cheever,
Edward Hirsch,
Daniel Menaker
and Stewart
O’Nan
Thursday, July 31, 6:30pm
Madison Square Park Conservancy’s free
series of summer readings by notable authors in historic
Madison Square Park. At the foot of the Farragut Monument,
located mid-park at 25th Street. Each program lasts
about one hour. Books are sold at the readings courtesy
of Borders.
In his forty years (1936-1975)
as fiction editor of The New Yorker,
William Maxwell worked with some of the most
celebrated American writers of the post-war period:
Vladimir Nabokov, J.D. Salinger, John Cheever, Frank
O’Hara, Eudora Welty, John Updike and Isaac Bashevis
Singer. He was an accomplished fiction writer as well;
the author of six novels (two were nominated for a National
Book Award), numerous short story collections, a memoir
and a collection of literary essays. John Updike described
Maxwell’s writing voice as “one of the wisest
and kindest in American fiction.” Join the National
Book Awards and some of Maxwell’s most prominent
friends and admirers in celebrating his centenary year
with a lively evening of discussion and reminiscence.
Event
Details 
AUGUST
2008
National Book Awards
August 15
Judges must receive books, bound galleys, or bound
manuscripts no later than August 15, 2008.
OCTOBER
2008
National Book Awards
National Book Award Finalists announced.
NOVEMBER
2008
National Book Awards
November 19
National Book Awards Ceremony
New York City
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