{"product_id":"what-there-is-to-say-we-have-said-the-correspondence-of-eudora-welty-and-william-maxwell-9780547750323","title":"What There Is to Say We Have Said: The Correspondence of Eudora Welty and William Maxwell","description":"\u003cp\u003eEavesdrop on one of the most celebrated literary friendships in American letters\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"An epistolary feast for literary fans [and] a confidence booster for aspiring writers everywhere. A-\" --\u003cem\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"If friendship is an art, this volume is its masterpiece.\" --Lee Smith \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A remarkable testimony to friendship, literature, and an abiding love of life.\" --\u003cem\u003eRichmond Times-Dispatch\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhat There Is to Say We Have Said\u003c\/em\u003e bears witness to Welty and Maxwell's more than fifty years of friendship and their lives as writers and readers. It serves as a chronicle of their literary world, their talk of Katherine Anne Porter, Salinger, Dinesen, Updike, Percy, Cheever, and more. Through more than three hundred letters, Marrs brings us the story of a true, deep friendship and an homage to the forgotten art of letter writing. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A vivid picture of twentieth-century intellectual life and a record of a remarkable friendship... Glorious.\" --\u003cem\u003eHouston Chronicle\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Full of great tidbits about The New Yorker back in the day ... Charming.\" --\u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"These letters evoke a lost world when events moved a bit more slowly, and friends could take the time to be both eloquently witty and generous with each other, and letters were unobtrusively artful about daily life. Welty and Maxwell are like two birds of the same species, calling to each other across the distances.\" --Charles Baxter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSUZANNE MARRS is the author of \u003ci\u003eEudora Welty: A Biography \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e One Writer's Imagination: The Fiction of Eudora Welty\u003c\/i\u003e and a recipient of the Phoenix Award for Distinguished Welty Scholarship. She is a professor of English at Millsaps College.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Paperbacks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51661038453010,"sku":"9780547750323","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9d2149e4-c870-4219-93b3-4a5e180b6d0a.jpg?v=1760434513","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/what-there-is-to-say-we-have-said-the-correspondence-of-eudora-welty-and-william-maxwell-9780547750323","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}