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Peerage News (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Robert Edward John (Robin) Compton, DL, sometime squire of Newby Hall, near Ripon, North Yorkshire, scion of the Marquesses of Northampton, died 14 Nov 2009, at the age of 87. He was born 11 Jul 1922, son of Edward Robert Francis Compton (1891-1977), A godson of King Edward VII, of Newby Hall, by his 1st wife the former Sylvia Farquharson (of Invercauld). His elder brother, Alwyne (b 1 May 1919) succeeded...
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Charlotte Observer: Breaking News (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
(By Emery P. Dalesio, Associated Press) Police delayed for more than an hour after a chilling emergency call that captured a gunshot before sending officers to the home where a real estate developer killed his family and then himself. The 74-minute delay before officers were dispatched to the home where William Maxwell shot and killed his wife and their two teenage children on Monday is part of an...
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Charlotte Observer: Breaking News (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
(By MARTHA WAGGONER, Associated Press Writer) Hours before William Maxwell slaughtered his family and killed himself, relatives and friends worried about the real estate developer gathered at his home to see if they could lift the normally happy dad from his funk. The youth basketball coach and active church member had been stressed lately, friends said Thursday, and the people closest to him were...
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Examiner (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
North Carolina police say a real estate developer known as an active member of his church shot and killed his wife and two teen children and then committed suicide in their Fayetteville home.
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Fox News (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
North Carolina police say a real estate developer known as an active member of his church shot and killed his wife and two teen children and then committed suicide in their Fayetteville home.
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Star Tribune (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
"He was a devout Christian and I really loved his family," McKinney said. William Maxwell also owned a couple of local car washes, while his wife Kathryn was a stay-at-home mother who taught Sunday school at Snyder Memorial Baptist Church in Fayetteville.
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. -- North Carolina police say a real estate developer known as an active member of his church shot and killed his wife and two teen children and then committed suicide in their Fayetteville home.
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CNN (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Police on Tuesday were investigating the apparent gunshot deaths of four people in a home in the upscale Haymount neighborhood of Fayetteville, North Carolina, authorities said.
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Emdashes (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Jonathan Taylor writes : A few overdue links to start the week—you're catching up already! Aldo Buzzi, who was a longtime friend and collaborator of Saul Steinberg, died October 9 . He was 99. "I was born just in time to see the Russia of Chekhov," he wrote in " Cheknov in Sondrio " ( The New Yorker , September 14, 1992), a Sebaldian wandering through time, literature, and...
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Tales from the Reading Room (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
I am here and still blogging, and thinking a great deal about ways that I could refresh my aims and intentions on this site. I know I want to move back closer to the books again, and to writing in more detail about fragments of books, but I need to think a little more about [...]
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The Millions (A Blog About Books) (Free subscription) | 22/09/2009
Life is impossible; it can't possibly continue; and then it does.
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Anecdotal Evidence (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Several times a day at school I cross paths with a woman 20 years my senior who does the job I do with better grace and efficiency. She’s been at it longer and is pleased to share what she knows. Her lessons are devoted to words and tones not technical knowhow or theory, which isn’t of much use with these kids. She’s a reader and English is her third language, acquired in the last...
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A Work in Progress (Free subscription) | 08/09/2009
I seem to be reading a lot of fiction lately that is autobiographical in nature. First Dawn Powell's Dance Night and now William Maxwell's The Folded Leaf. I loved the Powell for it's gritty feel and its look inside the...
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normblog (Free subscription) | 01/09/2009
Via Karen and Harriet, this book meme: answer the questions using only the titles of books you've read this year and without repeating one. Describe yourself: The Professor (Charlotte Brontë) How do you feel? Little Boy Lost (Marghanita Laski) Describe...
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Anecdotal Evidence (Free subscription) | 01/09/2009
Nige, lucky man, has again savored the pleasures of William Maxwell’s fiction; this time, his 1945 novel The Folded Leaf : “…Maxwell's touch is gossamer light; this is no omniscient narrator crashing onto the scene, nor a puppetmaster peeping out from behind the curtain. All is of a piece, all is one creation. And what a creation! I cannot for the life of me understand why Maxwell...
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