| 单词 | Updike |
| 例句 | Our last great middle-class hero, someone who really enjoyed his vacations and his country club, was John Updike’s Rabbit Angstrom, and he died a premature death. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Updike's novel begins, and what the neighbourhood makes of Walter and Patty Berglund is the issue here. Does Freedom reign? 2010-09-17T23:05:00Z Most of the pieces in this volume were written during the last two decades of Updike’s life and many project an air of nostalgia: a sense of time’s passage, receding vistas, intimations of mortality. Books of The Times: ?Higher Gossip? by John Updike - Review 2011-11-28T22:39:39Z “The issue seems to me to amount to whether I am really going to write in my life, or just be an elegant hack,” a distraught Updike wrote to his parents in June 1960. John Updike?s Archive: A Great Writer at Work 2010-06-20T23:23:00Z Updike’s novel “Couples” is based on the Ipswich years, and his “Rabbit” novels broke new ground in their frank exposition of sex, particularly what Begley calls “the ache of a male’s physical desire.” ‘Updike’: Prolific writer lived a life full of contradictions 2014-04-09T19:38:35Z As an artist did Updike suffer from divided loyalties — was the wide-eyed, hungry, rural Depression kid in some way at odds with the successful cosmopolitan figure he later became? Updike at Work: On Proust and Pennsylvania 2010-06-21T14:48:00Z We’re not all talking about the latest Wharton, Updike, or Carver. In support of Stephen King 2012-07-18T14:16:00Z Updike, who won Pulitzers for the novels "Rabbit Is Rich" and "Rabbit at Rest," died in 2009 at age 76. Future of author John Updike's Pa. house uncertain 2012-04-19T15:35:09Z It may even explain her guilt about phoning the friends and relations of Sendak, Updike and Sontag to discuss the most brutal days of their lives. Review: In ‘The Violet Hour,’ Great Writers Facing the Inevitable 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z In this morning’s newspaper, Sam Tanenhaus, editor of The New York Times Sunday Book Review, writes about an archive Updike assembled as a very personal record of his life and times. Updike at Work: A Conversation 2010-06-21T13:30:00Z But whatever dark rot lingered behind Updike’s bright, foxy smile is mostly left unpoked. Books of The Times: ‘Updike,’ Adam Begley’s Look at a Novelist’s Career 2014-04-08T17:28:46Z Rick DeMarinis writes a funny, touching story, “Gent,” about a mother who is, as Mr. Updike notes, “a hot number.” Revisiting American Short Stories Selected by John Updike 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z EL Doctorow was irritated enough by this gush to suggest to Updike that if "he goes around the corner" from his mailbox, "he'll find a missile silo buried in the next lot". Mo Yan, Salman Rushdie and censorship 2012-12-13T13:30:04Z Productive though he was, Updike suffered spasms of self-doubt. John Updike?s Archive: A Great Writer at Work 2010-06-20T23:23:00Z Begley not only chronicles Updike’s life but also manages to produce a major work of criticism. 50 notable works of nonfiction I only fairly recently read the Updike “Rabbit” books. The Best Book Jill Lepore Ever Got as a Present Is One She Hates 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z Updike was that rarity among American intellectuals, one who wrote with both humility and erudition about his religious faith. Books of The Times: ‘Updike,’ Adam Begley’s Look at a Novelist’s Career 2014-04-08T17:28:46Z Updike, tiptoeing his way through the intricate syntax of “Lifeguard” from his short story collection “Pigeon Feathers,” sounds impossibly youthful and fey. Hearing Genuine Voices of Midcentury Fiction 2014-01-19T22:40:18Z Professor Bloom’s critics noted that Mr. Updike had once referred to Professor Bloom’s writings as “torturous.” Harold Bloom, Critic Who Championed Western Canon, Dies at 89 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z Updike’s final collection of stories, “My Father’s Tears,” Amis reviews posthumously and finds to be “perhaps his least distinguished,” the stories “products of nothing more than professional habit.” Two Generations on View in Essays by Martin Amis and Zadie Smith 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z Updike dismissed it as ‘entertainment, not literature, even literature in a modest, aspirant form’. Tom Wolfe vs. John Updike, Norman Mailer and John Irving — and other timeless literary feuds 2019-06-23T04:00:00Z Further reworking the opening paragraph, to draw out its theme of impending death, Updike made subtly significant improvements. John Updike?s Archive: A Great Writer at Work 2010-06-20T23:23:00Z The society hopes the 1900 house can be preserved and re-created how it would have looked in Updike's youth. Updike's Pa. childhood home bought, museum planned 2012-08-28T15:34:09Z Assembled after Updike’s death in 2009 by the editor Christopher Carduff, “Higher Gossip” is a somewhat more scattershot affair than his earlier nonfiction collections. Books of The Times: ?Higher Gossip? by John Updike - Review 2011-11-28T22:39:39Z “Updike” races to its close, skimming lightly over Updike’s final decades and novels. Books of The Times: ‘Updike,’ Adam Begley’s Look at a Novelist’s Career 2014-04-08T17:28:46Z It is odd to blame the times, then, for a failure of imagination—that freewheeling, unabashed thing that Updike prized. “The House of God,” a Book as Sexist as It Was Influential, Gets a Sequel 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z The new initiative is selling ebook editions of modern classics, including Lolita, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Updike's Rabbit tetralogy, exclusively via 's Kindle store, leaving conventional publishers out of the picture. Publishers rage against Wylie's ebook deal with Amazon 2010-07-23T10:30:00Z Members hope to encourage the study and teaching of Updike works. Updike fans, scholars gather in eastern Pa. 2010-10-03T23:46:00Z Updike showed me it was possible to write in a realist way, with a poetic approach. A life in writing: Gerard Woodward 2012-11-23T22:55:10Z We get no sense of how Updike felt about Mr. Roth’s brilliant late career run, nor any complicated understanding of why Updike’s own reputation took a comparative nose dive. Books of The Times: ‘Updike,’ Adam Begley’s Look at a Novelist’s Career 2014-04-08T17:28:46Z When Updike’s poems miss, it is usually because they are tense and linguistically ornate. Review: Men of Letters, John Updike and Jim Harrison, and Their Poems 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z The question of being itself, as Updike and Holt agree, can seem profound in one mood, vacuous in another. ‘Why Does the World Exist?’ by Jim Holt 2012-08-03T22:40:08Z The archive was vitally important to him,” Mrs. Updike said in a telephone interview, especially in his last days. John Updike?s Archive: A Great Writer at Work 2010-06-20T23:23:00Z At Harvard, Updike met his first wife, Mary Pennington, to whom he would remain married for more than 20 years. Books of The Times: ‘Updike,’ Adam Begley’s Look at a Novelist’s Career 2014-04-08T17:28:46Z What of Updike’s criticism and E. B. White’s essays and Joan Didion’s sociopolitical dispatches? ArtsBeat: Book Review Podcast: Fact, Fiction and In Between 2012-02-24T21:51:58Z The society plans to conduct interviews in hopes of “replicating as much as possible” the way the house looked when Mr. Updike lived there. ArtsBeat: John Updike Society Buys Author's Boyhood Home for $200,000 2012-05-14T20:28:08Z Updike’s gift for close observation, in these poems as elsewhere, is near to supernatural. Review: Men of Letters, John Updike and Jim Harrison, and Their Poems 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z I mean, the Updike stuff is funny to me. Jerry Seinfeld Rarely Laughs While He’s Reading 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z Consider the major American novelists who emerged in the 1950s—Bellow, Updike, Mailer. David Foster Wallace’s importance of being earnest: Irony, Generation X and the sheer joy of language 2014-11-30T05:00:00Z Mr. Updike, who was born on March 18, 1932, died in 2009 after a career that produced 60 books as well as essays, criticism and poetry. ArtsBeat: Random House to Reissue Updike Works to Mark His Birthday 2012-03-06T19:36:25Z This led me to wonder about Updike’s dealings with editors in general and with you in particular. Updike at Work: Letters, Postcards and Much More 2010-06-21T17:35:00Z By the time we learn that Lippman taught them "to eat a piece of watermelon with a knife and a fork," the story has vindicated Updike's verdict. Philip Roth and race: A legendary novelist's troubling pattern 2021-02-07T05:00:00Z These were rejected but with encouraging comments from William Maxwell, the novelist and editor who would become Updike’s mentor when the magazine hired him in 1955. John Updike?s Archive: A Great Writer at Work 2010-06-20T23:23:00Z On the business side, Jaci Updike, most recently the president of sales, was promoted and will now be in charge of marketing as well. Penguin Random House Announces New Leadership After a Turbulent Period 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z “I couldn’t help think, as I stood there for my minutes in the spotlight, of all the writers who might with equal if not greater justice have received it instead,” Mr. Updike wrote. ArtsBeat: E.L. Doctorow and Mark di Suvero Strike Gold at American Academy of Arts and Letters 2013-05-15T19:43:18Z Updike felt that the universe had “a color, a quiet but tireless goodness that things at rest, like a brick wall or a small stone, seem to affirm.” ‘Why Does the World Exist?’ by Jim Holt 2012-08-03T22:40:08Z But all the while he was fending off the public, Updike was also leaving a trail of clues to his works and days: an enormous archive fashioned as meticulously as one of his lathe-turned sentences. John Updike?s Archive: A Great Writer at Work 2010-06-20T23:23:00Z But the art rings truest in Updike's rendering of filial tenderness and in his vivid, almost shockingly tactile recreation of the cramped world father and son awkwardly share - the classrooms, hallways, the bandbox gym. ArtsBeat: Times Staffers Recommend 'School Books' 2012-08-24T16:53:00Z It gets across Mr. Lethem’s antiauthoritarian streak, his instinctive distrust of preapproved canonical worthies like Updike, Saul Bellow and Thomas Pynchon. Books of The Times: Jonathan Lethem?s ?Ecstasy of Influence? - Review 2011-11-08T23:22:25Z From the outset Updike, at work on his first novel, hoped to study with the novelist Albert Guerard and the poet Archibald MacLeish, both on the Harvard English faculty. John Updike?s Archive: A Great Writer at Work 2010-06-20T23:23:00Z In “Rabbit, Run,” Updike renamed Reading “Brewer” and replaced the pagoda with a fancy hotel, but nobody was fooled. Essay: Postcards From My Literary Staycation 2010-08-27T15:04:00Z One of Updike’s last public appearances before his lung-cancer diagnosis was in 2008 at Seattle Arts & Lectures — at the time Updike thought he had “walking pneumonia.” ‘Updike’: Prolific writer lived a life full of contradictions 2014-04-09T19:38:35Z No other American writer who made a splash before 30, Mr. Begley observes, “piled up accomplishments in as orderly a fashion as Updike, or with as little fuss.” Books of The Times: ‘Updike,’ Adam Begley’s Look at a Novelist’s Career 2014-04-08T17:28:46Z Don DeLillo, unlike Updike, has not stupefied us with literary overproduction. Don DeLillo, an Old Hand at Paranoia and Dread, Meets Us Where We Are 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z Mr. Updike said he admired “that open-ended Zen quality they have, the way they don’t snap shut.” 2010-01-29T13:57:00Z Best known for his novels chronicling the life of Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, Updike won Pulitzers for two of those stories, "Rabbit Is Rich" and "Rabbit at Rest." Updike's Pa. childhood home bought, museum planned 2012-08-28T15:34:09Z There are echoes of Updike in the rhythms and observations of that sentence, but such are the multitudes of subject matter, place and structures in this collection that Pearlman finally seems beyond compare. Binocular Vision by Edith Pearlman – review 2013-02-28T10:00:01Z Comic characters, Updike writes in an essay about humor, are “rubbery,” with the ability to bounce back, whereas tragic ones tend to be brittle and stony and fated to “irrevocably shatter” under pressure . Books of The Times: ?Higher Gossip? by John Updike - Review 2011-11-28T22:39:39Z We witness Updike’s will in the face of repeated early rejections, rebuffs that would have squelched the drive of a less determined artist. Books of The Times: ‘Updike,’ Adam Begley’s Look at a Novelist’s Career 2014-04-08T17:28:46Z His widow, Martha Updike, has said that his only readers were his professional editors. Updike at Work: Letters, Postcards and Much More 2010-06-21T17:35:00Z I think we women want revenge; we want “blood on the ceiling,” as Patricia Lockwood gave us in her recent epic takedown of Updike, in the London Review of Books. “The House of God,” a Book as Sexist as It Was Influential, Gets a Sequel 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z Their unabashed joy helped lift my mood after all the drinking and failure and marital infidelity in Updike’s novel. Essay: Postcards From My Literary Staycation 2010-08-27T15:04:00Z But Updike’s books are, crucially, narrated in the third person, which creates a very different moral positioning from books narrated in the first—as my books are. But. Living with Frank Bascombe: An Interview with Richard Ford 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z In his early books, Updike wrote of sexual adventure as an antidote to death, a way of "grasping at life." In 'The Violet Hour,' Katie Roiphe looks at five great writers shuffling off this mortal coil 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z I was reading Updike and Nabokov for the first time. A life in writing: Gerard Woodward 2012-11-23T22:55:10Z The archive, by the way, is quite illuminating on Updike’s relationship with his mother. Updike at Work: Letters, Postcards and Much More 2010-06-21T17:35:00Z The mundane, in Updike's own formulation, is given its beautiful due – in unambitious, comic terms. Ian McEwan: when faith in fiction falters – and how it is restored 2013-02-16T08:30:12Z “I’m so for Obama,” Updike replied, “that I can’t imagine creating a character who wouldn’t vote for him.” Essay: John Updike’s ‘Rabbit Redux’ and White Working-Class Angst 2012-11-08T14:00:00Z His Maples stories, about the ups and downs of a married couple, drew from both of Updike’s marriages. ‘Updike’: Prolific writer lived a life full of contradictions 2014-04-09T19:38:35Z Alfred Knopf and his legal advisors, fearing obscenity prosecution, insisted Updike tamp down the more explicit passages. Updike at Work: Letters, Postcards and Much More 2010-06-21T17:35:00Z Like Updike, too, Mr. Harrison is best known for his novels, yet is a committed and talented poet. Review: Men of Letters, John Updike and Jim Harrison, and Their Poems 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z She notices the way ordinary friendship is largely missing from Updike’s work. In Lorrie Moore’s Nonfiction, the Sounds of an Intellectual Having a Good Time 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z “He basically said, ‘If you’re not going to let somebody write the last paragraph to an Updike article, you’re not doing anything to my caption.’” Sam Gross, 89, Dies; Prolific Purveyor of Cartoons, Tasteful and Otherwise 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z But I wonder whether Roth, Updike or Yates could have written about characters like these with the same sensitivity. Overlooked classics of American literature: Mrs Bridge by Evan S Connell 2012-10-02T13:41:50Z Updike acted as his own agent, and presumably made his own choice of journalistic placement for this not-quite-reject of his own making. Higher Gossip: Essays and Criticism by John Updike – review 2012-05-24T10:00:01Z Mr. Begley describes how Updike was stung by the pounding he took in later years from younger novelists and critics, including David Foster Wallace and James Wood. Books of The Times: ‘Updike,’ Adam Begley’s Look at a Novelist’s Career 2014-04-08T17:28:46Z A rare brush with fact is "More Matter," a collection of Updike's essays and criticism. Anne Tyler, still making it up 2012-04-03T12:39:08Z Updike is not situated, in “Updike,” except in passing, in the whirring galaxy of his competitive cohort, all those gravity-bending white males: Bellow, Styron, Vidal, Roth. Books of The Times: ‘Updike,’ Adam Begley’s Look at a Novelist’s Career 2014-04-08T17:28:46Z When he arrived at Harvard, Updike was a bony-shouldered scholarship boy from a public high school, afflicted with a stutter and a severe case of psoriasis. John Updike?s Archive: A Great Writer at Work 2010-06-20T23:23:00Z Condescend to Updike’s golf poems at your peril. Review: Men of Letters, John Updike and Jim Harrison, and Their Poems 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z It’s extraordinary not just that Updike established himself as one of the pre-eminent critics of his day, but also that he did so while moonlighting from his vocation as a novelist. Books of The Times: ?Higher Gossip? by John Updike - Review 2011-11-28T22:39:39Z Whatever it was, the book fatigued Updike but it had the effect on my imagination of electric caffeine. How “Life of Pi” anticipated 9/11 2013-04-28T19:00:00Z These details arrive in Adam Begley’s “Updike,” a sympathetic new biography that’s the first but unlikely to be the last of this great American writer — the great American writer, in many regards. Books of The Times: ‘Updike,’ Adam Begley’s Look at a Novelist’s Career 2014-04-08T17:28:46Z A copy of the hardcover edition in the Houghton collection is covered with Updike’s careful restorations of the original text. Updike at Work: Letters, Postcards and Much More 2010-06-21T17:35:00Z So it seems that upstairs, the literary magazine that published early Updike and Barthelme had its headquarters — and downstairs was the store that nurtured Mr. Connell, Mr. Kentfield and Mr. Shoemaker. Searching for Evan S. Connell’s Bohemian Sausalito 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z The famously publicity-shy Pynchon gave voice to a version of himself wearing a paper bag over his head; Updike played a ghost writer to Krusty the Clown. Neil Gaiman to appear on The Simpsons 2011-01-14T10:18:24Z Located at 117 Philadelphia Avenue, the house is near schools, businesses and other landmarks that appear in Mr. Updike’s short fiction and two early novels, “The Poorhouse Fair” and “The Centaur.” ArtsBeat: John Updike Society Buys Author's Boyhood Home for $200,000 2012-05-14T20:28:08Z And Updike, in his equally voluminous collections of reviews, makes it clear that critics, unlike novelists, are somehow “on duty”: They have to wear their Sunday best, and can never come as they are. ‘There Is Simply Too Much to Think About,’ Saul Bellow’s Nonfiction 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z But when Mr. Knopf, equally adamant, said, “he was unwilling to undergo the risk of printing the book as it stands,” Updike relented. John Updike?s Archive: A Great Writer at Work 2010-06-20T23:23:00Z Begley’s approach will appeal to fans of Updike’s body of work, but it doesn’t fully explain Updike’s contradictions. ‘Updike’: Prolific writer lived a life full of contradictions 2014-04-09T19:38:35Z Begley seems to have read every word Updike wrote — no small accomplishment. ‘Updike’: Prolific writer lived a life full of contradictions 2014-04-09T19:38:35Z The story, about an actor who can't escape from the spell he casts on others, is unusual for Updike in the negativism of its sexual psychology. Higher Gossip: Essays and Criticism by John Updike – review 2012-05-24T10:00:01Z Morrison goes on to write that since the deaths of Bellow, Mailer and Updike, the "number one" question is one that "inevitably comes up in relation to American fiction." Is there a 'number one' writer today? 2010-09-20T14:12:00Z Mr. Updike, as verbally charismatic as ever, compares one notion of reality to “a piece of light verse.” Books of The Times: ‘Why Does the World Exist?’ by Jim Holt 2012-08-02T18:37:46Z Updike probably chose basketball for Rabbit because it's less Waspy than tennis or golf. Literary giants at play 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z Updike conceded that it wasn’t simply a matter of clashing sensibilities: “He called what I had written uneven and uncontrolled.” John Updike?s Archive: A Great Writer at Work 2010-06-20T23:23:00Z His pungent take on Updike’s series of “Bech” novels managed at once to express a certain awe at the writer’s talents while discounting the books in question, calling them “works of the left hand.” Frank Kermode, Literary Critic, Dies at 90 2010-08-18T23:17:00Z The society has an archive of Mr. Updike’s materials, including letters, currently held at Alvernia University in Reading, Pa., and Mr. Plath said some of that material might end up being displayed at the house. ArtsBeat: John Updike Society Buys Author's Boyhood Home for $200,000 2012-05-14T20:28:08Z Closed to biographers, the archive shows a driven, competitive side of Updike that few people knew. Updike at Work: A Conversation 2010-06-21T13:30:00Z It’s interesting to note as well the revisions Updike made to published work when it reappeared in books. Updike at Work: Letters, Postcards and Much More 2010-06-21T17:35:00Z “Instead,” Updike continues, “the windows of mirroring glass kept falling to the street and were replaced by ugly opacities of black plywood.” The Impeccably Understated Modernism of I. M. Pei 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z This is part of why writers like Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Cheever, Updike, Carver, Berryman, etc. lionized forty years ago are rarely taught or read in universities today, except in creative writing programs. Can Sobriety Be as Interesting as Addiction? A Writer Wonders 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z Adam Begley is a smart writer, and his forthcoming biography of Updike is tantalizing. New York Times Critics on What They Want to See 2013-12-31T23:10:26Z “Really, Barth’s mind, so invariably earnest, always penetrates to some depth tonic for me,” Updike wrote. Edward Hirsch’s ‘Gabriel’ and Christian Wiman’s ‘Once in the West’ 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z When I interviewed Updike in 2008 he said he remained a Pennsylvanian and after 50 years in Massachusetts still felt like a tourist there. Updike at Work: On Proust and Pennsylvania 2010-06-21T14:48:00Z Salter never earned the same renown as his peers Updike or Cheever or Roth, but fellow writers love him: Richard Ford once said that he “writes American sentences better than anybody.” New & Noteworthy Audiobooks, From Bob Dylan to Greta Thunberg 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z As for fellow American writers, Updike connects the dots between their life experiences and their artistic visions. Books of The Times: ?Higher Gossip? by John Updike - Review 2011-11-28T22:39:39Z “I think 400 was very good for a first-time effort. We thought it was a great event and would like to partner with Cinema Center again,” Updike said. Theater director uses innovation to draw audiences 2014-06-21T04:00:00Z Updike’s typewriter was being sold by a member of his family; half the proceeds will go to the New York Public Library. Kerouac and Updike Typewriters Ring Up Sales 2010-06-22T22:03:00Z These rejections steeled Updike in his growing belief that American writers had grown infatuated with European modernists and should instead pay closer attention to their own time and place. John Updike?s Archive: A Great Writer at Work 2010-06-20T23:23:00Z I have it on good report that there is an Updike Road in, or near, Pennington. In my genes: Adventures in DNA testing 2016-07-23T04:00:00Z Some of Updike’s last letters, written when his two sons and two daughters were grown, weigh the painful cost those closest to him paid for his high ambition and remorseless work habits. John Updike?s Archive: A Great Writer at Work 2010-06-20T23:23:00Z John Updike zinged him on several occasions and gave an unpleasant lawyer the name Gilman in his novel “S.” Her Father Was a Drama Critic, Her Mother a Superstar Agent 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z One of those few was Charles McGrath, a writer at large for The Times and former New Yorker fiction editor who worked with Updike for many years. Updike at Work: A Conversation 2010-06-21T13:30:00Z In them, Amis writes about Austen, Nabokov, Updike and many others. A Brief Guide to Martin Amis’s Books 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z New Zealand is, as similar billionaires know, in the middle of nowhere — on the part of a world map where “reverse” is on a gear shift, as John Updike wrote in a 1983 short story. Guerrilla Gardeners Meet Billionaire Doomsayer. Hurly-Burly Ensues. 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z Updike called the novel “entertainment, not literature, even literature in a modest aspirant form.” Tom Wolfe Kept a Close, Comical and Astonished Eye on America 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z The house, which Mr. Updike lived in from the time he was born until he was 13, currently serves as the offices of a graphic design studio. ArtsBeat: John Updike Society Buys Author's Boyhood Home for $200,000 2012-05-14T20:28:08Z Updike typically gives us every beautifully rendered detail: the fall of morning light, the "musty cidery smell" of pine needles, the texture of the blanket they lie on. Best literary sex scenes: writers' favourites 2012-07-06T21:55:26Z In 2009, Mr. Doctorow published an account of the reply he received from Mr. Updike in 2007 after sending congratulations on the prize. ArtsBeat: E.L. Doctorow and Mark di Suvero Strike Gold at American Academy of Arts and Letters 2013-05-15T19:43:18Z Literature owes Brod a debt, even if, as John Updike wrote, Kafka would come to have this in common with Shakespeare: “Their reputations rest principally on texts they never approved or proofread.” The Kafka You Never Knew 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z In looking back at his own earlier work, Mr. Updike says he fears that his prose has lost “its carefree bounce, its snap, its exuberant air of slight excess.” Books of The Times: ?Higher Gossip? by John Updike - Review 2011-11-28T22:39:39Z June 21 Updike at Work: Letters, Postcards and Much More Was he open to suggestions or criticism when he submitted work to The New Yorker? Updike at Work: Letters, Postcards and Much More 2010-06-21T17:35:00Z Charles McGrath: What’s fascinating about that letter is that at 19 Updike, though a prodigy, probably hadn’t read very much Joyce or Proust. Updike at Work: On Proust and Pennsylvania 2010-06-21T14:48:00Z It’s an honorable book but also a slight, frictionless and oddly subdued one, unlikely to jump-start new popular or critical interest in Updike’s vast oeuvre. Books of The Times: ‘Updike,’ Adam Begley’s Look at a Novelist’s Career 2014-04-08T17:28:46Z One can only imagine what Updike would have made of the Lagos of power cuts, traffic congestion, armed robbers and other hustlers, but Cole's gifts more than measure up to the task before him. Open City by Teju Cole ? review 2011-08-06T23:05:38Z Only recently, a critic was lamenting the decline of the American novel, the passing of the age of Updike, Roth and Bellow. Jonathan Franzen's Freedom: the novel of the century 2010-08-23T11:18:00Z After college, when Updike was newly married and had a family to feed, his autobiographical first attempt at a novel, “Home,” was rejected by Harper. Books of The Times: ‘Updike,’ Adam Begley’s Look at a Novelist’s Career 2014-04-08T17:28:46Z That King writes about these things while alluding to Sontag and Updike and Penelope and Odysseus without once seeming like she is otherwise slumming is part of her achievement. ‘Tacky’ Finds the Joy in Bad Taste 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z But, Updike has that special sheen, a filigree of wisdom and style so pleasing that it transcends its subject matter. The Great American Novelist tournament 2013-01-22T12:51:05Z John Updike once described writing as a matter of “taking a deep breath, leaning out over the typewriter and trying to drive a little deeper than the first words that come to mind.” ‘The Beanie Bubble’ Review: Caught in a Fad Romance 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z Mr. Harrison’s unrhymed verse is far less rhetorically organized than is Updike’s, but this is part of his work’s charm. Review: Men of Letters, John Updike and Jim Harrison, and Their Poems 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z It's a magical feat, pulled off with Updike's signature wit, painterly vision, and keen eye for beauty in the tiniest of details. Top 10 books on the ancient world 2010-09-29T12:08:00Z He said the Updike house has a commercial variance originally given for a doctor's office there but another variance would be needed for the historic home site. Future of author John Updike's Pa. house uncertain 2012-04-19T15:35:09Z These poems are darker than you may remember Updike’s poetry being. Review: Men of Letters, John Updike and Jim Harrison, and Their Poems 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z When he attends a party at George Plimpton’s Manhattan apartment in 1982, the decadent scene looks, he notes, “like a giant Updike book.” Books of The Times: ?Journals of Spalding Gray,? Edited by Nell Casey - Review 2011-10-17T21:27:58Z The Henry Bech novels chronicled a literary star who wins every prize in the book, except the Nobel — just like Updike. ‘Updike’: Prolific writer lived a life full of contradictions 2014-04-09T19:38:35Z If Updike himself had been compiling the volume, rather than Carduff, it's hard to imagine In Love With a Wanton making the cut. Higher Gossip: Essays and Criticism by John Updike – review 2012-05-24T10:00:01Z Updike wrote, obsessively, about his hometown of Shillington, Pa. His adoring mother and father were characters in his fiction. ‘Updike’: Prolific writer lived a life full of contradictions 2014-04-09T19:38:35Z And even if Franzen's territory remains, by and large, the American middle class, now Updike has gone no one writes about it better. Does Freedom reign? 2010-09-17T23:05:00Z Isn’t it time to start thinking of Roth and Updike and Miller and Bukowski as period writers, like Henry James? “Wiggly meats”: Feminism, “transgressive sex” and the fiction of Matthew Klam 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z One example is The Beloved, a story accepted by the New Yorker in 1971 but then withdrawn after the editor, William Shawn, expressed "qualms", as Updike puts it, "about the theatrical background I had concocted". Higher Gossip: Essays and Criticism by John Updike – review 2012-05-24T10:00:01Z ST: Any discussion of Updike seems to lead back to Pennsylvania, but once he left, in 1950, he left for good. Updike at Work: On Proust and Pennsylvania 2010-06-21T14:48:00Z Even so, when Updike in 1960 wanted to write about the way an ordinary American couldn't escape his dead-end life, he turned to basketball. Literary giants at play 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z The second was Updike's "Twin Beds in Rome". Ian McEwan: when faith in fiction falters – and how it is restored 2013-02-16T08:30:12Z “Malamud did not seem to have such a good time, but he did fine. Updike was self-effacing and unpretentious.” Hearing Genuine Voices of Midcentury Fiction 2014-01-19T22:40:18Z "I got interested in reading a lot of short fiction. Updike and Cheever and Carver and those guys," Clowes says. Daniel Clowes reflects on his 'Eightball' comics' evolution 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z I have never found a contemporary writer with Roth or Updike’s insight or humor. Dear Reader, Meet Your Match: An Advice Column for Book Lovers 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z Updike was not talking selfishly about sending away his writing and receiving cheques in return. Letters: Satanic view that equates democracies and dictatorships 2012-12-16T21:00:12Z The readership for foreign literature is not very big here, and Chinese people are mostly unfamiliar even with writers like Salinger and Updike. Granta Expands Its Foreign Editions 2012-09-03T19:50:24Z It is among Mr. Begley’s themes in “Updike” that much of Updike’s fiction sprang almost directly from his life. Books of The Times: ‘Updike,’ Adam Begley’s Look at a Novelist’s Career 2014-04-08T17:28:46Z “The whole store was like a pinball machine,” Updike wrote in “A&P,” his famous story from 1961. Books of The Times: ?The Great A&P,? by Marc Levinson, a Retail History - Review 2011-09-06T21:03:24Z Perhaps Updike hid his molten core from everyone. ‘Updike’: Prolific writer lived a life full of contradictions 2014-04-09T19:38:35Z The main power the trio revel in is sexual, and Updike has his usual fun with that. Blake Morrison: under the witches' spell 2012-07-20T21:55:10Z In it she revisits the graphic sex scenes by writers like Roth, Updike, Bellow and Mailer, finding in “their dirty passages a sense of novelty, of news, of breaking out.” Books of The Times: ‘In Praise of Messy Lives,’ Essays by Katie Roiphe 2012-11-27T16:27:18Z Updike, Roth, and Franzen are updated, not just invoked—the charismatic voice finds something urgent to say. “Fleishman Is in Trouble” Turns the Marriage Novel Inside-Out 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z Updike’s impulse to charm on the page has been held against him. Books of The Times: ‘Updike,’ Adam Begley’s Look at a Novelist’s Career 2014-04-08T17:28:46Z Do you think that you and Updike have had a similar approach to your recurring characters? Living with Frank Bascombe: An Interview with Richard Ford 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z Within a few years obscenity standards relaxed, and Updike restored the original language, carefully pasting typed insertions in the margins of an early printed edition preserved in the Houghton archive. John Updike?s Archive: A Great Writer at Work 2010-06-20T23:23:00Z He never musters a dense argument for Updike’s importance, which would require him to triangulate not just among Bellow and Roth and Mailer but among Proust and Hawthorne and Nabokov and Henry James. Books of The Times: ‘Updike,’ Adam Begley’s Look at a Novelist’s Career 2014-04-08T17:28:46Z The prestige novels, the homework for literate adults, included Don DeLillo’s “White Noise,” Toni Morrison’s “Beloved,” William Kennedy’s “Ironweed” and John Updike’s “Rabbit is Rich.” Among the Literary Lions, at Full Roar, in the 1980s 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z There are also photocopied pages from medical books on heart disease as well as correspondence from a boyhood friend, a surgeon, who offered to arrange for Updike to observe an angioplasty procedure. John Updike?s Archive: A Great Writer at Work 2010-06-20T23:23:00Z Neither Begley’s thorough reporting nor his dedicated analysis of Updike’s books and poems explains the writer’s carelessness with sex, his arm’s-length treatment of his children, his fondness of the ordinary and the everyday. ‘Updike’: Prolific writer lived a life full of contradictions 2014-04-09T19:38:35Z It did, as in the Updike story, suffer from engineering failures. The Impeccably Understated Modernism of I. M. Pei 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z I thought of those words as I read Adam Begley’s new biography, “Updike.” ‘Updike’: Prolific writer lived a life full of contradictions 2014-04-09T19:38:35Z Updike introduced the character of a cat that both meowed and talked, a charming role that Schuller assigned to a high soprano. When Boston Ruled the Music World 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z That Updike had affairs, sometimes with his friends’ wives, is not news. Books of The Times: ‘Updike,’ Adam Begley’s Look at a Novelist’s Career 2014-04-08T17:28:46Z Updike himself had unconsciously endorsed his imperial state's natural tasks – regular identification and extermination of enemies through awe-inspiring violence – when he supported the US bombing of Vietnam. Mo Yan, Salman Rushdie and censorship 2012-12-13T13:30:04Z Indeed, he comes across as the author’s doppelgänger — the other self Mr. Updike might have become had he remained in his hometown, Shillington, Pa., and never become a writer. 38 Years on Books: The Essential Michiko Kakutani Reader 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z I’m less certain, agreeing with Ian McEwan that “the Updike opus is so vast, so varied and rich, that we will not have its full measure for years to come.” New York Times Critics on What They Want to See 2013-12-31T23:10:26Z “Updike’s treatment of sex … is that of a fictional biochemist approaching mankind with a tray of hypersensitive gadgets.” What Did the Fiction Best-Seller List Look Like 25, 50, 75 Years Ago? 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z She had been signed up by one of the business' most revered editors, Alfred A. Knopf's Judith Jones, who also worked with Updike and had recently helped discover Julia Child. Anne Tyler, still making it up 2012-04-03T12:39:08Z Updike, who died in 2009, was the supreme chronicler of ordinary American life. Andrew Davies to defend John Updike with Rabbit TV series 2018-05-27T04:00:00Z The papers also suggest that Updike was a more complex artist — and person — than he chose to admit. John Updike?s Archive: A Great Writer at Work 2010-06-20T23:23:00Z Mr. Amis compared it, in a 1990 interview with The New York Times Magazine, to “something out of early Updike, ‘Couples’ flirtations and a fair amount of drinking.” Martin Amis, Acclaimed Author of Bleakly Comic Novels, Dies at 73 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z Not content with attacking Nabokov, Bellow, Updike, Martin Amis and myself for "selective humanism", he states: "Of course, violence and exploitation underpin all nation states, democratic or not." Letters: Satanic view that equates democracies and dictatorships 2012-12-16T21:00:12Z She used to pass John Updike’s house there when she went for a run, she said. A Successful Editor Turns Debut Author, Surprising Nearly Everyone 2023-02-26T05:00:00Z But politics, for Updike, as for so many others who came of age in the 1950s, formed the background to the more absorbing concerns of career, marriage and family. John Updike?s Archive: A Great Writer at Work 2010-06-20T23:23:00Z Updike had more sheer talent, Bellow more moxie. Philip Roth, a Born Spellbinder and Peerless Chronicler of Sex and Death 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z In the case of Updike, cancer helped him relocate his voice. Review: In ‘The Violet Hour,’ Great Writers Facing the Inevitable 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z During Updike’s years as a New Yorker writer, many of his stories recounted a newly married couple struggling with work and children. ‘Updike’: Prolific writer lived a life full of contradictions 2014-04-09T19:38:35Z It, too, was rejected, by Harper, before landing at Alfred A. Knopf, the publisher with whom Updike would profitably remain. Books of The Times: ‘Updike,’ Adam Begley’s Look at a Novelist’s Career 2014-04-08T17:28:46Z The serial number indicates that Updike probably purchased the typewriter while his family lived in London, from 1968 to 1969, shortly after he wrote “Couples.” Updike Typewriter for Sale 2010-06-21T21:26:00Z Jeffrey, the “rich, whiny white guy,” she says, “thinks he is Updike.” 'Girls' Recap: Hannah Horvath Insults the Rainbow 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z Mr. Wood went so far as to declare that “Updike is not, I think, a great writer.” Books of The Times: ‘Updike,’ Adam Begley’s Look at a Novelist’s Career 2014-04-08T17:28:46Z “Updike’s archive may be the last great paper trail,” Adam Begley, a critic and literary journalist now at work on a biography of Updike, said in an e-mail message. John Updike?s Archive: A Great Writer at Work 2010-06-20T23:23:00Z Perhaps forty years of deference explain why Shem, like Updike, writes as a child would, imagining an audience that will express only adoration. “The House of God,” a Book as Sexist as It Was Influential, Gets a Sequel 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z Like Updike, Mr. Harrison has been almost dementedly prolific. Review: Men of Letters, John Updike and Jim Harrison, and Their Poems 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z It’s got the detail I like in a lot of writers – that’s why I like Proust, that’s why I like Updike. The Jayhawks return with “Paging Mr. Proust”: “They’re gonna call me a pompous ass, it’s gonna be fantastic!” 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z Updike’s official archivists dismiss Moran’s collection as historically unimportant and accuse him of a gross invasion of privacy. Weekend Reading: Observing Executions, Italian Earthquakes, Nico Muhly on Beyoncé 2014-08-30T04:00:00Z But she is also capable of arresting aperçus: “There is no writer more poetically articulate about irritation than Updike.” From Don DeLillo to Marilyn Monroe: Lorrie Moore’s First Essay Collection 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z Updike makes you see everything his characters see. Best literary sex scenes: writers' favourites 2012-07-06T21:55:26Z Eventually sexual adventure, often rendered with graphic directness, would become a staple of Updike’s fiction, as his mission to record the Protestant ethic met the upheavals of the sexual revolution. John Updike?s Archive: A Great Writer at Work 2010-06-20T23:23:00Z By these standards, My Morning Jacket’s “The Waterfall” depicts a not-quite-sympathetic male protagonist similar to an Updike antihero—caddish, self-absorbed, impatient with the women in his life. My Morning Jacket’s “The Waterfall”: You’ve never heard Jim James like this 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z June 21 Updike at Work: On Proust and Pennsylvania Any discussion of Updike seems to lead back to Pennsylvania. Updike at Work: On Proust and Pennsylvania 2010-06-21T14:48:00Z But you get the sense that we are just beginning to untangle Mr. Updike’s knots. Books of The Times: ‘Updike,’ Adam Begley’s Look at a Novelist’s Career 2014-04-08T17:28:46Z When I reminded Updike of this, he looked startled. Essay: John Updike’s ‘Rabbit Redux’ and White Working-Class Angst 2012-11-08T14:00:00Z Updike's gaze is never exactly gallant, but it's usually more forgiving than this. Higher Gossip: Essays and Criticism by John Updike – review 2012-05-24T10:00:01Z Embassy Theatre was excited to partner with Cinema Center for the event, said Kelly Updike, Embassy’s executive director. Theater director uses innovation to draw audiences 2014-06-21T04:00:00Z Actually, I stopped by Shillington first, because that is where Updike spent part of his childhood, but Shillington is a bland, generic suburb. Essay: Postcards From My Literary Staycation 2010-08-27T15:04:00Z To determine if someone has overdosed, check for responsiveness, meaning does that person react to sound or touch, said Ashley Updike, a member of Public Health — Seattle & King County’s Overdose Prevention and Response team. 7 take-aways from expert panel on the fentanyl crisis in King County 2023-10-25T04:00:00Z The last thing American letters need is a John Updike rehash. Did Gen X sell out? In Nathan Hill's stealthy new satire, it's way worse than that 2023-09-15T04:00:00Z His 1979 novel, “The Book of Laughter and Forgetting,” had been reviewed by John Updike in the New York Times Book Review, accompanied by an interview with Philip Roth. Appreciation: In a world full of lies, Milan Kundera taught us how to be free 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z I imagine he must have struck a writer like Updike as a walking anachronism, a coelacanth-like living fossil from the high modernist age. Cormac McCarthy shaped a generation of writers like me — even when we didn't admit it 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z “I’m conservative like she is - she votes the way I would,” said Ken Updike, a local party leader who pushed the resolution. A South Dakota Senate aide’s allegation roils GOP politics 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z “Remember that people are going through an active trauma when they’re overdosing, and people can be very disoriented,” Updike said. 7 take-aways from expert panel on the fentanyl crisis in King County 2023-10-25T04:00:00Z “I’m conservative like she is — she votes the way I would,” said Ken Updike, a local party leader who pushed the resolution. A South Dakota Senate aide’s allegation roils GOP politics 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z Though she designed hundreds of album covers, Ms. Goldberg was most celebrated for her book covers, which John Updike called “bold and festive” and numbered in the thousands. Carin Goldberg, designer of book covers and Madonna’s first album, dies at 69 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z Dr. Maccoby was also a classmate of author John Updike, who led the rival Lampoon humor magazine. Michael Maccoby, authority on leadership and the workplace, dies at 89 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z John Updike once memorably described celebrity as “a mask that eats into the face.” Review: Cary Grant takes acid. Fiction ensues 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z “It is refreshingly free both of collegiate sentiment and — in John Updike’s memorable phrase — the dim rumble of hobbyhorses being ridden back and forth across the floor,” Washington Post book reviewer L.J. John Jay Osborn Jr., author of ‘The Paper Chase,’ dies at age 77 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z He thrills at meeting John Updike but is more deeply heartened by a reader who tells him that the first book she ever read was a Patterson novel. Review | James Patterson shares his formula for success. It’s pretty simple. 2022-06-06T04:00:00Z The tone of his baseball writing, he once said, was inspired by a now canonical John Updike article, written in 1960, about Ted Williams’s final game at Fenway Park in Boston. Roger Angell, Who Wrote About Baseball With Passion, Dies at 101 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z As a fiction editor, a position his mother, Katharine Sergeant White, held at the magazine for more than 35 years, Angell worked with writers as diverse as Vladimir Nabokov, John Updike and Woody Allen. Roger Angell, admired for his eloquent essays on baseball, has died 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z He also edited such authors as John Updike and Garrison Keillor. Longtime New Yorker writer, editor Roger Angell dies 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z From there, his eclectic filmography swerved from the frantic adaptation of John Updike’s “The Witches of Eastwick” to the somber medical drama “Lorenzo’s Oil” to the children’s film franchises Babe and Happy Feet. Review | ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ had an exceptionally strange journey to cinematic glory 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z Dickens is too busy, Faulkner much more difficult; Roth, Updike and Bellow all seem less interested in women. Review: Is Jonathan Franzen too big to fail? 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z Ketchikan’s Isaac Updike will be among the top seeds Friday in the men’s 3,000-meter steeplechase after winning his heat earlier this week. No Olympics in steeplechase for Alaska’s Allie Ostrander, who places 8th in finals 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z Since then, only Updike has been the subject of a major biography. Philip Roth Was His Own Favorite Subject. What’s Left for a Biographer? 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z Benjamin litters the novel with heaps of literary allusions and references: Austen, Beckett, Proust, Gogol, Eliot, Rand, Melville, Shakespeare, Stein, Frost, Nabokov, Updike, Wallace, Flaubert — this is a partial list. Review: Edith Wharton in the time of Trump: a new novel reinvents 'Ethan Frome' 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z “The Dance of the Solids,” with its rhyming references to ceramics, polymers and nonstoichiometric crystals, also appeared in Updike’s collection Midpoint and Other Poems. Nature in Verse: What Poetry Reveals about Science 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z Updike also stated that he wanted the title to be “Swing Thoughts” because “the whole piece keeps circling around the theme.” John Updike: My innermost swing thoughts - Golf Digest 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z Often Baker’s preciously guarded version of Updike tallies up with the real thing. World Cup questions: Were England robbed by Argentina at Mexico 86? | Barney Ronay 2020-04-26T04:00:00Z “We focus on the swarm method,” said Amy Updike, the emergency department clinical manager. A ‘New Normal’ for Hospitals on the Front Lines Fighting Coronavirus 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z Even as the cold war was ending, Updike’s everyman was not alone in feeling at a loss. Freedom without constraints: how the US squandered its cold war victory 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z District Judge Michael H. Simon’s bench facing Updike and signed throughout the trial. Jury awards $125K in damages to former inmate who is deaf 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z Dwayne Netland had been the features editor at the time the assignment was made, but he since moved over to become the travel editor, and I inherited Mr. Updike. John Updike: My innermost swing thoughts - Golf Digest 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z “Updike wrote his witches as quite ambiguous figures, partly inspiring and partly villainous,” says professor Gibson. From Baba Yaga to Hermione Granger: why we're spellbound by 'witcherature' 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z Miller Updike said while there is room for progress, better coordination between state and local agencies and community groups was yielding better outcomes for children. Child-neglect reports sat unread for 4 years because of an email mix-up 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z But Roth and Updike were both a different sort of writer. Why would one man read Mark Twain's whole library? 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z After the verdict was announced, Updike signed ‘Thank you, thank you” to the jury. Jury awards $125K in damages to former inmate who is deaf 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z A graduate of Stanford with a degree in psychology, Watson might not have been an intellectual match for Updike, but he could be a stimulating subject. John Updike: My innermost swing thoughts - Golf Digest 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z In the final pages, at the worst possible moment, he flees again, which Updike captures in that closing line swelling with deliverance and cowardice. Perspective | The 23 most unforgettable last sentences in fiction 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z According to the Updike study, Tennessee is the fourth most generous suitor for new business - 105 percent higher than the national average. Tennessee editorial roundup 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z As ever more scientific papers back up the concept of phase separation as a cellular mechanism, the number of skeptics keeps on dropping, according to Updike and Brangwynne. "Lava-Lamp" Proteins May Help Cells Cheat Death 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z In January 2013, Gresham police responded to a disturbance at Updike’s home involving Updike and another person. Jury awards $125K in damages to former inmate who is deaf 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z We then published Updike’s first instruction essay, and I followed up with a reminder about the sequel. John Updike: My innermost swing thoughts - Golf Digest 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z When I reached college as an English major interested in American literature, the list expanded to include Roth, Updike and Pynchon. It's time to decolonize that syllabus - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z Didn’t Updike and Cheever place all their stories in the clammy, endless days of July? When the cousins come to town, we sprint to the surf, laugh at the heat 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z That consecration has spread from academia to, say, Reddit, where fans gather around movies, TV dramas, video games and comic books the way the academy threw its weight behind Dostoyevsky, Joyce, Faulkner and Updike. Who Gets to Decide What Belongs in the ‘Canon’? 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z I never warmed to Bellow, and while I admire Updike, the only novel of his I enjoyed was "Bech: A Book," his attempt to write a Roth novel. Roth a bard of the unbridled libido, but also a writer whose passing brings tears 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z As he put it, “Updike and Bellow hold their flashlights out into the world, reveal the world as it is now. I dig a hole and shine my flashlight into the hole.” Philip Roth: explorer of a golden age's dark corners | Jonathan Freedland 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z However, sometimes, on the back of Updike’s – and many other literary giants – books, one reads the word “funny”. ‘Savagely funny and bitingly honest’ – 12 writers on their favourite Philip Roth novels 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z “Updike and Bellow hold their flashlights out into the world, reveal the world as it is now,” Mr. Roth once said. Philip Roth, Towering Novelist Who Explored Lust, Jewish Life and America, Dies at 85 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z I guess I’m not as demanding as Updike. The Evolution of One of Fiction’s Gay Liberators 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z Although he is often lumped with Bellow and Updike in a triumvirate of late 20th century male literary titans, and those two have their rabid partisans, for my money, it's Roth by a length. Roth a bard of the unbridled libido, but also a writer whose passing brings tears 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z Perhaps their dilemmas were not as different as it appears from the dilemma offered by Updike to Rabbit. The parent trap: can you be a good writer and a good parent? 2018-02-24T05:00:00Z In its scope and ambition, "Chicago" feels like one of the great American male novelists of the late 20th century — Updike, Mailer, Bellow, Roth — trying his hand at writing a genre novel. Hard-drinking newspapermen and tough-talking brutes populate David Mamet's novel 'Chicago' 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z What would happen if Mailer or Updike had ever hinted that feminism might just have a point? Pushing back: why it's time for women to rewrite the story 2018-02-17T05:00:00Z Michael Updike said Friday that he didn’t expect to have to complete the carving so soon. Dead Poets founder dies after commissioning tombstone 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z Updike, a sculptor and stone carver, was commissioned to create a tombstone that’s both contemplative and irreverent. Someday he’ll join them: Poets Society head gets tombstone 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z The design created in collaboration with Michael Updike features traditional and modern styles, Latin and Hebrew letters, Greek Muses and a biblical quote from St. Paul. Someday he’ll join them: Poets Society head gets tombstone 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z But unlike those novelists' somewhat less sure-footed lunges —Mailer's "Tough Guys Don't Dance" and Updike's "Terrorist" come to mind — Mamet lands this with aplomb. Hard-drinking newspapermen and tough-talking brutes populate David Mamet's novel 'Chicago' 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z Roth’s sexual projection is nothing compared with Updike’s and Mailer’s, however. Pushing back: why it's time for women to rewrite the story 2018-02-17T05:00:00Z The Updike Society says restoration should be finished by the end of summer. John Updike’s Pennsylvania childhood home to become museum 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z “It’s a fun project. And there’s a lot of inside jokes in there. So yeah, we’ll see how it goes,” said Updike, who created the tombstone for his late father’s memorial in Plowville, Pennsylvania. Someday he’ll join them: Poets Society head gets tombstone 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z Updike’s Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom is constantly on the run, always looking for the prize in a race he can never win. When ‘Enough’ Doesn’t Have to Mean ‘More’ 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z When Updike looked at women, he imagined that they thought about him. John Updike’s Rabbit, Run – another American story of men escaping women 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z “Though we thumped, wept, and chanted ‘We want Ted’ for minutes after he hid in the dugout, he did not come back,” wrote Updike. The Joy of Six: happy endings in sport | Nick Miller 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z Updike won Pulitzers for the novels “Rabbit Is Rich” and “Rabbit at Rest.” John Updike’s Pennsylvania childhood home to become museum 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z Updike said that one “looks in vain” in “Pack My Bag,” Green’s memoir, to understand how he became such an original writer. The Novelist of Human Unknowability 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z Our condition, in Updike’s words, is “one of anxiety, of lostness.” When ‘Enough’ Doesn’t Have to Mean ‘More’ 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z This early review set the tone for what would follow, and for many years Updike, Philip Roth and Saul Bellow were hailed as a kind of unquestioned trinity of the best modern American novelists. John Updike’s Rabbit, Run – another American story of men escaping women 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z “If you’re discriminated against in getting housing, there’s a decent chance you don’t know it happened. Maybe you don’t even suspect it,” note the show’s Nancy Updike. Trump's 1973 Discrimination Case Was Part of Larger Case 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z Since then, the society has worked to re-create the 1930’s vibe of the late Pulitzer Prize winner’s home, based on old photographs and Updike’s writings. John Updike’s Pennsylvania childhood home to become museum 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z There may be more clues than Updike realized. The Novelist of Human Unknowability 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z It has taken me most of a lifetime, but I may finally have learned the lesson Updike was talking about. When ‘Enough’ Doesn’t Have to Mean ‘More’ 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z Eventually Updike would write four novels about Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom, his suburban everyman. John Updike’s Rabbit, Run – another American story of men escaping women 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z In court Tuesday, Welch said little other than “Yes, sir, your honor” when Updike asked him if he was okay with the trial being delayed. Once Lyon sisters suspect started talking, he went on for 1,900 pages 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z Some Republicans might continue to look at these states and see Updike country—places amenable to the politics of Baker or Hogan or Romney. Cruz and Kasich (and the G.O.P.) Give Up on the Northeast 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z So did Updike — continuing to write with great intensity, remaining free of self-pity and cordial to his visitors. Tales of writerly death 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z Judge James Updike rescheduled the trial to begin March 15, 2016. Trial for man charged with killing missing sisters delayed 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z Updike helped map what later became known as “Cheever country”: the white, affluent, suburban landscape of stunted hopes and spiritual anomie through which Harry Angstrom will take his picaresque journey. John Updike’s Rabbit, Run – another American story of men escaping women 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z “It’s going to take that long for us to process, catalogue, review and conduct our investigation,” one of Welch’s attorneys, Aaron Houchens, told Judge James Updike on Tuesday. Once Lyon sisters suspect started talking, he went on for 1,900 pages 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z I suspect that Updike liked the paradox of writing so nakedly in a style nevertheless quilted with exquisite verbiage. The Bards of Boston 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z When Updike ruefully told his wife that he thought he was done writing, she pushed him, “Just one more book.” Tales of writerly death 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z Yet he, like Updike, took care to collect and preserve his manuscripts and letters; both men sold their papers to research libraries – tacit acknowledgment that their private lives would be subject to scrutiny. Dirt for art's sake: what's offensive and what's essential in author biographies? 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z Even bearing in mind that the New Yorker had been, in essence, Updike’s house magazine for 50 years, this remains praise of an order few writers will ever achieve. John Updike’s Rabbit, Run – another American story of men escaping women 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z They offer up their own stories as ‘‘what Updike called ‘specimen lives,’ ’’ she said. Terry Gross and the Art of Opening Up 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z The poem doesn’t work; the farther Updike strays from his native styles and subjects, the more we suspect that style—in this case, difficult, modernist collage—was something he put on with irritating ease. The Bards of Boston 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z Updike’s conviviality stood in direct contrast to the behavior of his second wife, who jealously guarded his time, even, heartbreakingly, limiting visits by his children and grandchildren from his first marriage in his final days. Tales of writerly death 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z Updike assigned two lawyers who are qualified for appointment to death-penalty cases in Virginia: Aaron B. Houchens and Anthony F. Anderson. Lyon sisters case suspect makes first court appearance 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z Some reviewers – led, to the author’s irritation, by his revered fellow practitioner, Updike – fretted about how to know which bits of his books were history and which were just his story. EL Doctorow: 'He showed how a great literary imagination can illuminate the present through the prism of the past' 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z The June 22 Metro article “Sweet Briar will live for another year” emphasized the short-term nature of the agreement approved by Judge James W. Updike Jr. and the hurdles the college must overcome. Sweet Briar will be stronger than ever 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z Updike’s poems level our intrinsic ranking of occasions. The Bards of Boston 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z They presented a signed settlement agreement to Bedford County Circuit Court Judge James W. Updike Jr., who quickly approved the plan. Sweet Briar survives: Judge approves settlement deal to keep the college open 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z After more questions, Updike said that Welch qualified for court-appointed counsel. Lyon sisters case suspect makes first court appearance 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z She hopes the case will be heard before Updike from June 22 through 24. Va. Supreme Court says lower court erred in Sweet Briar case, sends it back, as advocates cheer 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z Updike had ruled that the college was a non-stock corporation and the board had the power to close it. Sweet Briar backers urge Virginia high court to keep women's college open 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z Suddenly, Updike’s subject—his true subject, the life of comfort and security and satisfaction that writing brought him—rises to the surface. The Bards of Boston 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z In a partial victory for anti-closing forces, Circuit Judge James Updike temporarily prohibited Sweet Briar from selling its assets. Sweet Briar College closure faces Supreme Court of Va. test 2015-05-30T04:00:00Z It was an encomium not only for Updike but for all the Great Male Narcissists, “phallocrats” like Norman Mailer, Charles Bukowski and Philip Roth. Richard Ford: Heart of the Country Media outlets report that Bedford County Circuit Court Judge James Updike denied the Bank of James’ request to move the remains to another site on Wednesday. Judge: Bank can’t move remains from Va. cemetery 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z Supporters of the school are asking the high court to overturn an April ruling by Amherst County Circuit Court Judge James Updike that allowed the school's board to shut it down. Sweet Briar backers urge Virginia high court to keep women's college open 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z There’s no reason to add to the slander and vitriol that get heaped upon Updike’s poems, mainly by upstart brats like me, every time an edition of them appears. The Bards of Boston 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z Updike said all departments at the Embassy work together as a team, so the open design will help to facilitate this collaborative environment. Fort Wayne hotel, theater renovations on track 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z Ford lacks the smug solipsism of Updike, the crushing sexual neuroses of Roth, the overweening machismo of the other male writers bloodied by Wallace’s strafing. Richard Ford: Heart of the Country Also – and I don’t think I’m backwards-projecting here – there was something creepy about Updike’s use of the word “woman” in that sentence; and “delicious”, and “uninhibited”. Fear of Flying was the first time I encountered adult life and wasn’t bored 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z This is why Updike’s decades-old novels are so helpful in deciphering the ways our current culture kicks up so much ambivalence and regret. 794 Ways in Which BuzzFeed Reminds Us of Impending Death 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z Updike’s poems are not trifles; he could be surprisingly formally ambitious, even experimental. The Bards of Boston 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z Currently, there is nothing like it in Fort Wayne, Updike said. Fort Wayne hotel, theater renovations on track 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z She also bagged up hundreds of books, including the oeuvres of Twain and Updike, because they were close to where the dog suspected bedbugs. Bedbugs Hitch a Ride on Library Books 2012-12-05T20:37:36Z The trial has been delayed several times for various reasons since Updike's indictment in May 2011. Trial set for man accused in Auburn tree poisoning 2012-06-18T21:42:48Z And no wonder — Updike knew exactly how the intrusions of pop-culture minutiae had the power to evoke the cheery dread of Middle America. 794 Ways in Which BuzzFeed Reminds Us of Impending Death 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z There are various reasons why Hodgson's love of Updike is problematic, but primarily it is the sex. Roy Hodgson liking John Updike will take some getting used to 2012-05-18T14:10:51Z Kelly Updike, executive director of the Embassy, 125 W. Jefferson Blvd., said they are very close to the philanthropic goal of $6 million raised from foundations, businesses and individual donations. Fort Wayne hotel, theater renovations on track 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z Updike told Holt that he doubted whether science would ever produce a satisfying answer to The Question. Science Will Never Explain Why There's Something Rather Than Nothing 2012-04-23T20:45:33.007Z I feel like what Updike calls a "myrmidon of unhesitating amplitude." Of All Things 2011-10-09T02:00:26.957Z Updike illustrates what we stand to lose when we mask our dread with peanut brittle and daiquiris and “If I Didn’t Care” by Connie Francis. 794 Ways in Which BuzzFeed Reminds Us of Impending Death 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z Updike is unremittingly frisky, peering into the marital bed with his spyglass, logging the tang and texture of each bodily secretion. Roy Hodgson liking John Updike will take some getting used to 2012-05-18T14:10:51Z Updike said plans call for turning the existing kitchen on the first floor into a museum for artifacts from the Embassy Theatre and the old hotel. Fort Wayne hotel, theater renovations on track 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z The theory of inflation, Updike noted, which Linde and other theorists have promoted as a theory of cosmic creation, “seems sort of put forward on a smile and a shoeshine.” Science Will Never Explain Why There's Something Rather Than Nothing 2012-04-23T20:45:33.007Z Mr. Updike, who was a warm friend of the family, and Captain Dalton, then visited Chicago, arriving December 8. Mississippi Outlaws and the Detectives Don Pedro and the Detectives; Poisoner and the Detectives 2011-03-28T02:00:28.167Z Updike’s protagonist, Rabbit Angstrom, is a former high-school basketball star who feels hemmed in by the American dream — cornered by his alcoholic wife, Janice, and upstaged by his ineffectual, self-pitying son, Nelson. 794 Ways in Which BuzzFeed Reminds Us of Impending Death 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z It is also those painfully sonorous Updike observations, a quality of distractingly sensual insight that, frankly, seems incompatible with the narrow-focused demands of being England football manager. Roy Hodgson liking John Updike will take some getting used to 2012-05-18T14:10:51Z Mr. Berkeley Updike of the Merrymount Press, Boston, and Mr. Bruce Rogers during his connection with the Riverside Press, Boston, have also both done excellent work, which is too little known in this country. Fine Books 2011-03-08T03:00:40.363Z Updike, who died in 2009, a year after Holt interviewed him, toyed with the idea that, if there is a God, He created the world out of boredom. Science Will Never Explain Why There's Something Rather Than Nothing 2012-04-23T20:45:33.007Z The circumstances of young Trafton's death, as related by the officials in charge of the body, created considerable suspicion in the minds of Messrs. Updike and Dalton, who, therefore, proceeded to investigate the affair. Mississippi Outlaws and the Detectives Don Pedro and the Detectives; Poisoner and the Detectives 2011-03-28T02:00:28.167Z Mr. Selinger retreated from the din by reading — first Chip Hilton and the Hardy Boys; then the World Book Encyclopedia, then Updike, Roth, Shakespeare and Hemingway. Our Towns: Loss of Speech Evokes the Voice of a Writer 2011-03-07T00:22:20Z Updike wrote the phrase "celebrity is a mask that eats into the face". Roy Hodgson liking John Updike will take some getting used to 2012-05-18T14:10:51Z So were generations of readers, for a few days later, Updike sat down and wrote “Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu,” probably the most celebrated baseball essay ever. Tribute to a Hero in Twilight 2010-09-25T17:26:00Z Freedom is not the kind of Great American Novel that Franzen's predecessors wrote — not the kind Bellow and Mailer and Updike wrote. Jonathan Franzen: American Author on TIME Pens 'Freedom' 2010-08-28T14:10:00Z Mr. Updike gave her twenty-five dollars, however, to pay for Mr. Trafton's board and lodging, and to recompense her for her trouble. Mississippi Outlaws and the Detectives Don Pedro and the Detectives; Poisoner and the Detectives 2011-03-28T02:00:28.167Z A tip for the aspiring novelist — we’ve moved beyond Updike and Roth. 2010-02-12T18:54:00Z Naturally, seamlessly, or perhaps with a forced and clunking urgency the subject of Updike might come up. Roy Hodgson liking John Updike will take some getting used to 2012-05-18T14:10:51Z Updike, who was beginning to realize the extent of his powers, had never written about baseball before, and never did again except for a couple of footnotes about Williams. Tribute to a Hero in Twilight 2010-09-25T17:26:00Z Among the present-day designers of printing whose work shows an intimate study of the principles and the traditions of the craft are such men as Rogers, Updike, Goudy, Cleland, and Currier. Applied Design for Printers A Handbook of the Principles of Arrangement, with Brief Comment on the Periods of Design Which Have Most Strongly Influenced Printing Typographic Technical Series for Apprentices #43 Who ever saw Mr. Updike's specimen pages for an edition of the "Imitatio Christi," in old English type, without a desire to possess the completed work? The Booklover and His Books His first fount, cut for Mr. D. B. Updike, of the Merrymount Press, Boston, and known as the "Merrymount," is shown in 64. Letters and Lettering A Treatise With 200 Examples Updike wrote this about those moments where sport works as it should. Roy Hodgson liking John Updike will take some getting used to 2012-05-18T14:10:51Z Updike compares Williams to Achilles, to a Calder mobile, to Donatello’s David, standing on third base as if the bag were the head of Goliath. Tribute to a Hero in Twilight 2010-09-25T17:26:00Z I've a notion to write J. Updike, Lizzie, and find out whether he knows anything about wireless telegraphy," she said, "only there's so little time. Tish There was another, the Tonawanda Country Club, to which belonged Charles McKelvey, Horace Updike, and the other rich men who lunched not at the Athletic but at the Union Club. Babbitt Yet the essay is never precious or self-consciously literary, the way a lot of subsequent Fenway prose became, penned by earnest, heavy-breathing scribes clustered in Updike’s shadow. Tribute to a Hero in Twilight 2010-09-25T17:26:00Z It seems obvious now, but Updike was one of the first to show that you don’t have to write down about sports or empurple them, either. Tribute to a Hero in Twilight 2010-09-25T17:26:00Z A groundskeeper reminds Updike of Wordsworth’s mushroom gatherers. Tribute to a Hero in Twilight 2010-09-25T17:26:00Z Updike tried his invariable first maneuver—touching her nervous wrist. Babbitt Updike was Zenith's professional bachelor; a slim-waisted man of forty-six with an effeminate voice and taste in flowers, cretonnes, and flappers. Babbitt |
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