In the Stacks

My last rummaging session took place in a very out of the way used bookstore and yielded a nice surprise — a reissue of The Outermost Dream: Literary Sketches, a collection of criticism by William Maxwell. Maxwell was a longtime editor for the New Yorker and writes with magazines signature style as he introduces the reader to a number of unknown literary gems.

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