The Guardian (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
'Reality is - chemically, atomically, biologically - a fabric of microscopic accuracies. The capture of such accuracies is the surest pleasure a writer receives.'
Blowin' In The Wind (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
Rabbit at Rest by John Updike John Updike is a perfectionist -- not a flamboyant writer. He can make even the shocking seem almost natural. In Rabbit At Rest, Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom ends up in bed with his daughter-in-law, Pru....
Blowin' In The Wind (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
I finished reading Rabbit at Rest by John Updike and the only word for it is Wow! Here is a great writer who knows how to bring scenes and characters to life. He is not flashy or literary, just a...
Blowin' In The Wind (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
These songs are for John Updike fans. It's one of the last songs Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom hears on the radio driving from his old home in Brewer, Pennsylvania, to the condo in Florida, where he and Janice have retired --...
Blowin' In The Wind (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
These songs are for John Updike fans. It's one of the last songs Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom hears on the radio driving from his old home in Brewer, Pennsylvania, to the condo in Florida, where he and Janice have retired --...
Blowin' In The Wind (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
These songs are for John Updike fans. It's one of the last songs Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom hears on the radio driving from his old home in Brewer, Pennsylvania, to the condo in Florida, where he and Janice have retired --...
Blowin' In The Wind (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
These songs are for John Updike fans. It's one of the last songs Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom hears on the radio driving from his old home in Brewer, Pennsylvania, to the condo in Florida, where he and Janice have retired --...
Blowin' In The Wind (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
These songs are for John Updike fans. It's one of the last songs Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom hears on the radio driving from his old home in Brewer, Pennsylvania, to the condo in Florida, where he and Janice have retired --...
Blowin' In The Wind (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
These songs are for John Updike fans. It's one of the last songs Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom hears on the radio driving from his old home in Brewer, Pennsylvania, to the condo in Florida, where he and Janice have retired --...
Blowin' In The Wind (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
These songs are for John Updike fans. It's one of the last songs Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom hears on the radio driving from his old home in Brewer, Pennsylvania, to the condo in Florida, where he and Janice have retired --...
Blowin' In The Wind (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
These songs are for John Updike fans. It's one of the last songs Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom hears on the radio driving from his old home in Brewer, Pennsylvania, to the condo in Florida, where he and Janice have retired --...
World Culture Pictorial (Free subscription) | 07/12/2008
(quote) In 1969, the American writer John Updike famously declared, "I see no intrinsic reason why a doubly talented artist might not arise and create a comic strip novel masterpiece." The statement was immediately ridiculed by literary traditionalists, who disparaged comics as a "low" medium unworthy of serious critical attention. But it became a rallying cry among comic book creators, long second-class...
Sacramento Executive (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
(Sacramento, CA) – California Lectures has announced its sixth season of literary presentations with a line-up of award-winning authors that includes bestselling novelist Julia Glass, one of our country’s best known and most prolific authors John Updike, literary author (a.k.a....
hi spirits (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008
Thirty-one years ago, in the introduction to "Picked Up Pieces," his second collection of assorted prose, John Updike laid down his own six rules for reviewing. They are still the single best guide to fairness today: "My rules," he writes, "shaped intaglio-fashion by youthful traumas at the receiving end of critical opinion, were and are: 1. Try to understand what the author wished to do, and
Infinite Monkeys (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
...but I smiled a little at Michael Ian Black's barbs at David Sedaris. A teaser: "At a cocktail party, a bottle of lousy champagne is uncorked. You take a swig, grimace, and say, 'Send this swill back to France where...
