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New York Times, 5/15/2022
For a decade Mr. Woiwode had been teetering on the edge of literary stardom. His mentor was William Maxwell, the gentle New Yorker fiction editor who had nurtured literary lions of postwar America like John Cheever, J.D. Salinger, Shirley Hazzard and John Updike, and who, like Mr. Woiwode, had grown up in a small town in Illinois and gone to the state university’s Urbana-Champaign campus.
Mr. Maxwell was both lodestar and protector when, at 24, Mr. Woiwode moved to New York, where he lived on beer and candy bars in an East Village room on St. Marks Place that rented for $9 a week. Mr. Maxwell would bring him sandwiches for lunches they shared on benches in Central Park. Editors’ Picks Your Dog Is Not Ready for You to Return to the Office In Court, Johnny Depp and Amber Heard Dress to Suggest A Second Bedroom on the Upper West Side for Under $800,000? These Were Their Options.
Mr. Woiwode’s first novel, “What I’m Going to Do, I Think,” was a meditation on love — the story of a young couple’s moral and emotional quest set in a lodge on a Michigan lake, where they have gone for their honeymoon.
Which is the only book of his I've read. And I don't remember a thing about it.
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