{"id":1027,"date":"2013-09-17T15:41:17","date_gmt":"2013-09-17T15:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stanford.edu\/group\/bookclub\/cgi-bin\/wordpress\/?p=1027"},"modified":"2013-09-17T15:43:17","modified_gmt":"2013-09-17T15:43:17","slug":"an-unexpected-encounter-with-william-maxwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/?p=1027","title":{"rendered":"An encounter with William Maxwell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/rolf-rykken-722.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1029\" title=\"rolf-rykken-722\" src=\"http:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/rolf-rykken-722-239x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"239\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/rolf-rykken-722-239x300.jpg 239w, https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/rolf-rykken-722.jpg 590w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 239px) 100vw, 239px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rolf Rykken<\/strong> wrote to us at Another Look a couple days ago. \u00a0He&#8217;d read the retrospective on <strong>William Maxwell<\/strong>\u00a0for last year&#8217;s event for <em>So Long See You Tomorrow<\/em> (it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/bookhaven.stanford.edu\/2012\/10\/remembering-william-maxwell-\u201che-used-a-pause-better-than-most-of-us-use-a-paragraph-\u201d\/\">here<\/a>), and told us of his own accidental meeting with the author in 1995. \u00a0He tells his story on the blog for the Phillips Collection in Washington D.C. It begins:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was in my first stint as a Phillips Collection Museum Assistant as well as a full-time BFA student at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.corcoran.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Corcoran College of Art and \u00a0Design<\/a>\u00a0after 20 years as a newspaper and magazine journalist. I was sitting on the front steps of the Phillips house during a work break when I saw a tall, angular older man leaving the museum with his daughter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read the rest at &#8220;William Maxwell: Monumental Head&#8221;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.phillipscollection.org\/2012\/01\/20\/william-maxwell-monumental-head\/\">here.<\/a> It&#8217;s very short, but you&#8217;ll like it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rolf Rykken wrote to us at Another Look a couple days ago. \u00a0He&#8217;d read the retrospective on William Maxwell\u00a0for last year&#8217;s event for So Long See You Tomorrow (it&#8217;s here), and told us of his own accidental meeting with the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/?p=1027\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}