{"id":8375,"date":"2012-12-25T02:33:07","date_gmt":"2012-12-25T06:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/?p=8375"},"modified":"2016-08-18T12:15:48","modified_gmt":"2016-08-18T16:15:48","slug":"william-maxwell-the-lily-white-boys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2012\/12\/25\/william-maxwell-the-lily-white-boys\/","title":{"rendered":"William Maxwell: &#8220;The Lily-White Boys&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>William Maxwell, one of my favorite authors, has a classic Christmas story called &#8220;The Lily-White Boys,&#8221; which is appropriately happy and melancholy. I was pleased to see\u00a0<em>The Library of America<\/em> post a PDF of it in their excellent &#8220;Story of the Week&#8221; series, and I simply want to link to that PDF for your holiday reading pleasure. So go join the Follansbee Christmas party and take a walk down the empty sidewalks of Manhattan. <a title=\"The Lily-White Boys\" href=\"http:\/\/www.loa.org\/images\/pdf\/Maxwell_Lily-White_Boys.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Please go here to read &#8220;The Lily-White Boys.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Merry Christmas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, The Library of America is featuring William Maxwell&#8217;s &#8220;The Lily-White Boys,&#8221; set at a Christmas party. <a href=\"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2012\/12\/25\/william-maxwell-the-lily-white-boys\/\"><u>Read the full 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