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Short Stories: Two John Updike pieces offer tribute to fathers
Two of John Updike’s later stories offer interesting insights about fathers and sons. “My Fathers’ Tears” was published in February of 2006 in The New Yorker and “My Fath… more →
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John Updike
wrote 7 months ago: JOHN UPDIKE (1932-2009), American writer Portrait: Alex Katz … more →
Short Stories: Two John Updike pieces offer tribute to fathers
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wrote 10 months ago: Two of John Updike’s later stories offer interesting insights about fathers and sons. “M … more →
Book News: New John Updike poem
wrote 11 months ago: A new John Updike poem is circulating that contains some reflections about death. The poem is calle … more →
John Updike: A life in pictures
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wrote 11 months ago: 1 / 15 John Updike was born in Shillington, a small town in eastern Pennsylvania, the son of a maths … more →
Obituary: John Updike, 1932-2009
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wrote 11 months ago: Acclaimed writer with an unerring feel for the poetry of ordinary American life Eric Homberger guard … more →
Short Story: A&P by John Updike foreshadows suburban consumerism
wrote 11 months ago: In his oft-anthologized short story from 1961, “A&P”, John Updike chronicles the oft … more →
Book News: a round-up of John Updike obituaries and short stories
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wrote 11 months ago: News reports say that Updike, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, died today of lung cancer at age 76. … more →
John Updike: A Month of Sundays
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wrote 1 year ago: Penguin Modern Classics have had their revenge on me at last. Always keen to read more John Updike a … more →
The mellowing anaesthetic effect of the Scotch was abruptly catalyzed into rage.
wrote 2 years ago: - John Updike, The Witches of Eastwick: p. 131 … more →
Beds always have to be remade
wrote 2 years ago: Why was there nothing to sleep on but beds that had to be remade, nothing to eat from but dishes tha … more →
The many laborious steps lunch involved overwhelmed her
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wrote 2 years ago: The many laborious steps lunch involved nearly overwhelmed her – taking the meat from the refr … more →
Tomatoes
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wrote 2 years ago: Alexandra thought of tomatoes, the juice of violence beneath the plump complacent skin. - John Updik … more →
Studying theology
wrote 2 years ago: His course epitomized everything I hated about academic religion; its safe and complacent faithlessn … more →
Reading Barth
wrote 2 years ago: I took down my old copy, a paperbound Torchbook read almost to pieces, its binding glue dried out an … more →
Glimpses inside houses
wrote 2 years ago: trying to imagine, as he walks along, from the glimpses of books and lamps and knick-knacks that the … more →
Ronald Reagan
wrote 2 years ago: Rabbit liked Reagan. He liked the foggy voice, the smile, the big shoulders, the way his head kept w … more →
Infatuated with completion
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wrote 2 years ago: It occurs to me, remembering the fabled time when I lived in the world and had my being there, that … more →
Parties
wrote 2 years ago: …a party forces us to become many people, none of them entirely pleasant. - John Updike, Roger … more →
One less witness
wrote 2 years ago: Like the death of your parents it leaves you with one less witness to your life when a man you loved … more →
