Blogs about: Updike
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Daniel Berkeley Updike: Printer as Rubricator
“Updike’s aptitudes were of a rarer sort, not so easy to recognize without careful consideration. Throughout his career, his outstanding achievement was the uninterrupted production of printed matter … more →
Printers
Book Recommendation
wrote 3 weeks ago: Rabbit, Run by John Updike … more →
Portrait of a Tragic Cashier
wrote 1 month ago: Any story has a plot. It can be simple or involving, moving from place to place and covering days, w … more →
dreaming reality
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wrote 1 month ago: Confusion was the the main feeling I had when my eyes popped open this morning, I was having a dream … more →
'A Lyric Little Bandbox' Turns 100: A Photo Album Tribute
wrote 1 month ago: On April 20, 2012, Fenway Park–’a lyric little bandbox of a ballpark’, as Updike d … more →
Tyler Cowen, Bad Religion, and contemporary religious practice
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wrote 1 month ago: Tyler Cowen writes about Ross Douthat’s Bad Religion and has, as usual, a lot of content in a … more →
analysis of A&P by Updike
wrote 2 months ago: My Journals have been slipping lately, and my professor knows it….oh well. here’s what I … more →
Reading Response 3: Separating in the style of Frank O'Hara
wrote 2 months ago: Frank O’Hara created the form of poetry known as personism, which “address[es] itself to one person, … more →
POSTCARD #2: RABBIT, RUN
wrote 2 months ago: If you’ve been feeling unnecessarily buoyed or heartened by our last review – which revelled i … more →
Some notes about Spanish typography and Vincent Steer
wrote 2 months ago: Printing Design and Layout was written by Vincent Steer in 1934 and dominated the typographic profes … more →
Quote for the Day
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wrote 2 months ago: “…even things of no great intrinsic merit, like that chair in the corner of this room, h … more →
Reading Response 2: Separating
wrote 3 months ago: The idea of causation (or lack thereof) is very prominent in John Updike’s Separating. In this story … more →
Separating
wrote 3 months ago: John Updike’s Separating was written a little bit differently than the last few stories we’ve read i … more →
QOTD - 31.1.12
wrote 4 months ago: We need soft night noises – a mother speaking downstairs. We need the little clicks and sighs of a s … more →
Darwin and the Art of the Three Star Review
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wrote 4 months ago: This is not a review. It’s, at best, a contemplation of a phenomenon I’ve yet to pinpoint. Or which … more →
Really late January 2012 links: Innovation, undergrads, TSA, Updike, the evils of JSTOR, and more
wrote 4 months ago: * This is our national identity crisis in a nutshell: Do we want government spending half its money … more →
Updike and the Witching Hour
wrote 4 months ago: Ever since the entire drama surrounding Harry Potter and the Twilight series has somewhat faded, the … more →
Daily Quote: Updike
wrote 5 months ago: Perfectionism is the enemy of creation… ~John Updike … more →
A&P
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wrote 5 months ago: One of my favorite short stories of all time is John Updike’s A&P. If I could do anything … more →
Terrorist not terrible but not terrific
wrote 5 months ago: I have been spending quite a bit of time on trains lately commuting into NYC, so reading has come in … more →
