Updike on Maxwell

John Updike, in the Sept. 8 issue of The New Yorker, writes of his friend and former editor, William Maxwell:

"Novel after novel, the reconciliation of art and actuality continued to present stimulating difficulties for Maxwell. In describing, in this magazine, his friend the poet Louise Bogan, upon her death, in 1970, he said, `In whatever she wrote, the line of truth was exactly superimposed on the line of feeling': such an exacting superimposition represented his ideal."