Rolf Rykken wrote to us at Another Look a couple days ago.  He’d read the retrospective on William Maxwell for last year’s event for So Long See You Tomorrow (it’s here), and told us of his own accidental meeting with the author in 1995.  He tells his story on the blog for the Phillips Collection in Washington D.C. It begins:

“I was in my first stint as a Phillips Collection Museum Assistant as well as a full-time BFA student at the Corcoran College of Art and  Design after 20 years as a newspaper and magazine journalist. I was sitting on the front steps of the Phillips house during a work break when I saw a tall, angular older man leaving the museum with his daughter.”

Read the rest at “William Maxwell: Monumental Head” here. It’s very short, but you’ll like it.