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Marginalia: Stewart O'Nan

Beth Navarro

Author Stewart O’Nan has devoted more than a thousand pages to the Maxwell family. A saga, of sorts, three books--Wish You Were Here, Emily, Alone, and now, Henry, Himself--have been released in reverse chronological order. And despite this reversal, more insights are gained as time is erased.

I recently spoke with O'Nan about the Maxwell family and his time with the books. Here's our conversation:

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Henry, Himself by Stewart O'Nan was published by Viking.

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Beth Golay is KMUW's Director of Marketing and Digital Content. She is the host of the KMUW podcast Marginalia, co-host with Suzanne Perez of the Books & Whatnot podcast, creator of the podcast You're Saying It Wrong, creator of KMUW's daily news podcast Wichita's Early Edition, and NPR StoryLab Workshop team member on the award-winning podcast My Fellow Kansans.