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23. The SALON Interview: John Updike For a man who dislikes interviews he has called them a form to be loathed; a halfform like maggots john updike is an agile and adept interview http://www.salon.com/08/features/updike.html

THE SALON INTERVIEW: JOHN UPDIKE "As close as you can get to the stars" By DWIGHT GARNER Illustration by Zach Trenholm F or a man who dislikes interviews he has called them "a form to be loathed; a half-form like maggots" John Updike is an agile and adept interview subject. In conversation he seems to shed, as the critic James Wolcott has put it, "bright amounts of angel fluff" about almost any topic at hand. At age 64, there is indeed something snow-capped and oddly angelic about Updike; he seems to hover over the contemporary literary scene like an apparition from another era, the last great American man of letters. On a recent Friday in New York, a snowy and harried day that would find him shuffling from "Good Morning America" to "Charlie Rose" to a marathon telephone conference with 20 journalists, Updike took an hour to talk to SALON about his new novel "In the Beauty of the Lilies" a vigorous and expansive book that tracks four generations in a single American family as well as a career that has spanned some 40 books, including 17 novels and numerous collections of short stories, poems, and criticism. He also spoke on a variety of other topics, including the American cinema and its discontents (Quentin Tarantino, "Leaving Las Vegas"), the current state of The New Yorker as witnessed in its fiction ("They kind of go for more pow, more zap"), Bill Clinton's sexual and political conundrums, and his rather autumnal feelings about the decline and fall of the American reader. In your new novel, "In the Beauty of the Lilies," both religion and the movies figure very prominently in the lives of many of the characters, and there's a sense that film has somehow replaced religion as the place people look to for clues about how to live. How true is this?

24. John Updike: A Who2 Profile From Harvard to a staff position on The New Yorker, john updike turned his brainy pedigree into a successful career as a novelist, essayist and critic. http://www.who2.com/johnupdike.html

@import url("http://www.who2.com/css/standard_gamma.css"); Find Famous People Fast! Who2 FAQ Who2 Blog For Students Contact Who2 Browse by Name: A B C D ... Z John Updike Writer From Harvard to a staff position on The New Yorker , John Updike turned his brainy pedigree into a successful career as a novelist, essayist and critic. His novels Rabbit, Run Couples (1978) and Pulitzer winner Rabbit is Rich (1981) exemplify his sophisticated take on contemporary middle-class tragedy. Prolific as all get-out, Updike has also written numerous short stories and poems, and in 1997 he engineered a group-written mystery story on the Internet. Other novelists on Who2 include Annie Proulx Ernest Hemingway Eudora Welty and J.D. Salinger Four Good Links The Centaurian Academic discussions of his works John Hoyer Updike From Finland (!) a good brisk biography and list of his books Life and Times: John Updike Fabulous NY Times collection of Updikiana; you must register (but it's free) Joyce Carol Oates on John Updike Oates muses on her colleague in two meaty essays Vital Stats Birth 18 March (age 75) Birthplace Reading Pennsylvania Death Best Known As Author of Rabbit, Run

25. John Updike - The New York Review Of Books Bibliography of books and articles by john updike, from The New York Review of Books. http://www.nybooks.com/authors/158

Home Your account Current issue Archives ... NYR Books John Updike John Updike John Updike was born in 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania. In 1954 he began to publish in The New Yorker , where he continues to contribute short stories, poems, and criticism. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, among other awards. His most recent books are the novel Terrorist and Due Considerations , a collection of his essays and criticism. From the Review January 17, 2008 Nocturnes Georges Seurat: The Drawings Catalog of the exhibition by Jodi Hauptman, with essays by Karl Buchberg, Hubert Damisch, Bridget Riley, Richard Shiff, and Richard Thomson December 20, 2007 Gustav Klimt: The Ronald S. Lauder and Serge Sabarsky Collections November 22, 2007 The Purest of Styles Catalog of the exhibition by Leo Jansen, Hans Luijten, and Nienke Bakker July 19, 2007 Serra's Triumph Richard Serra Sculpture: Forty Years Catalog of the exhibition by Kynaston McShine and Lynne Cooke May 31, 2007 (poem) November 30, 2006 After Katrina New Orleans After the Flood: Photographs by Robert Polidori After the Flood by Robert Polidori, with an introduction by Jeff L. Rosenheim

26. Sparky From St. Paul: Books: The New Yorker More In This Section Books In the Mourning Store by Adam Gopnik Books Prophet Motive by Joan Acocella Books Visual Trophies by john updike Books http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2007/10/22/071022crbo_books_updike

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27. John Updike Writer The Witches of Eastwick. john updike is among the leading novelists of the late 20th century, having Visit IMDb for Photos, Filmography, http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0881433/

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28. John Updike A selective guide to articles and reviews on john updike, from literaryhistory.com. http://www.literaryhistory.com/20thC/Updike.htm

John Updike (1932 - ) A selective bibliography of open access articles John Updike, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the Modern Language Association Guidelines for Authors of Web Pages main page 20th century authors 19th century authors ... about LiteraryHistory Literary Criticism Bawer, Bruce. On John Updike's More Matter: Essays and Criticism. "For Updike, seemliness is paramount. And this, to my mind, is his distinctive failing as a writer: that he has exalted charm and mannerliness above all else." In the Hudson Review, Spring 2000 Bawer, Bruce. On John Updike's Odd Jobs: Essays and Criticism. "The more one reads this book, the more one wonders: What passions rule this man? What makes him fume? Do any young novelists knock his socks off?" In the Wall Street Journal Bawer, Bruce. On John Updike's Self-Consciousness. "Updike has made clear, in various places, his enthusiasm for Karl Barth's view of God as 'Wholly Other'; his coolly clinical approach to character gives one the impression that he considers his fellow man, too, to be Wholly Other." In the Wall Street Journal Bawer, Bruce.

29. Quoteland :: Quotations By Author john updike, Quoted in Writers at Work (George Plimpton, ed.), 1976 -john updike, On London, in “A Madman”, New Yorker , December 22, 1962 http://www.quoteland.com/author.asp?AUTHOR_ID=459

30. CRITICAL MASS Critical Library John Updike We recently heard from threetime NBCC winner (and four time finalist) john updike, whose 1983 book, Hugging the Shore, will be the focus of this week s http://bookcriticscircle.blogspot.com/2007/10/critical-library-john-updike.html

@import url("http://www.blogger.com/css/blog_controls.css"); @import url("http://www.blogger.com/dyn-css/authorization.css?targetBlogID=22105469"); var BL_backlinkURL = "http://www.blogger.com/dyn-js/backlink_count.js";var BL_blogId = "22105469"; CRITICAL MASS the blog of the national book critics circle board of directors Tuesday, October 23, 2007 Critical Library: John Updike Each week, the NBCC will post a list of five books a critic believes reviewers should have in their libraries. We recently heard from three-time NBCC winner (and four time finalist) John Updike, whose 1983 book, "Hugging the Shore," will be the focus of this week's In Retrospect essay and posts. Last year, we posted Updike's rules for reviewing, from his 1975 volume, "Picked Up Pieces." It is still the most linked to post on this blog. Today he publishes a new volume of criticism, "Due Considerations: Essays and Reviews." In the meantime, here are the volumes he recommends: Mimesis , by Erich Auerbach : a stunningly large-minded survey from Homer and the Old Testament up to Woolf and Joyce. Quoting a lengthy paragraph or two from each classic, Auerbach gives us an essential history of, as his subtitle has it, “the Representation of Reality in Western Literature.” Aspects of the Novel , by E. M. Forster

31. John Updike Interview With Don Swaim john updike is interviewed by Don Swaim of CBS Radio. http://wiredforbooks.org/johnupdike/

Wired For Books home Don Swaim Interviews Audio Interview with John Updike Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award, author John Updike talks with Don Swaim about Updike's novels, The Witches of Eastwick and Rabbit Run , in this 1984 interview. Updike’s fascination with witches started when he was a boy. He grew up in "witchy" and superstitious part of Pennsylvania. His grandmother was a Pennsylvania Dutch, and she too was very superstitious. His curiosity peaked during his college years when he had the time to research the subject. From his research, he found no one had ever been proved to be an actual witch. Records only showed those who admitted to it, most likely to end his or her torture, or if they were "crazy." Updike also comments on another one of his novels, The Coup , which is about, and narrated by, the president of a fictional Marxist Islamic central African nation called Kush. Updike was criticized for going on a limb to write about something as foreign to him as Africa, but he defended his decision by saying writers should not be afraid to write about something new. To hear more of his words of wisdom related to the craft of writing and to learn more about his career as a writer, click on the link below.

32. The Individual john updike has published more than 20 novels, as well as many collections of short stories, poetry, and criticism. He has twice won the Pulitzer Prize for http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200711/updike-individual

The Future of the American Idea November 2007 Atlantic Monthly by J ohn U pdike The Individual Article Tools sponsored by: document.write(''); E-mail Article Printer Format T he American idea, as I understand it, is to trust people to know their own minds and to act in their own enlightened self-interest, with a necessary respect for others. Totalitarian governments promise relief for deprived and desperate people, but in the end are maintained in power by terrorism from above rather than the consent of the governed. Empowerment of the individual was the idea in 1857, and after a century and a half of travail and misadventure among human societies, there is no better idea left standing. The idea of individual freedom, undermined by a collectivist tide in the first half of the last century and disregarded by radical Islam today, now spreads through an electronic culture of music, television, and the Internet, even under governments fearful of losing control. Return to: The American Idea Scholars, novelists, politicians, artists, and others look ahead to the future of the American idea. John Updike has published more than 20 novels, as well as many collections of short stories, poetry, and criticism. He has twice won the Pulitzer Prize for his fiction.

33. A&P - John Updike by john updike. In walks these three girls in nothing but bathing suits. I m in the third checkout slot, with my back to the door, so I don t see them http://www.tiger-town.com/whatnot/updike/

by john updike In walks these three girls in nothing but bathing suits. I'm in the third check-out slot, with my back to the door, so I don't see them until they're over by the bread. The one that caught my eye first was the one in the plaid green two-piece. She was a chunky kid, with a good tan and a sweet broad soft-looking can with those two crescents of white just under it, where the sun never seems to hit, at the top of the backs of her legs. I stood there with my hand on a box of HiHo crackers trying to remember if I rang it up or not. I ring it up again and the customer starts giving me hell. She's one of these cash-register-watchers, a witch about fifty with rouge on her cheekbones and no eyebrows, and I knowit made her day to trip me up. She'd been watching cash registers forty years and probably never seen a mistake before. She had on a kind of dirty-pink - - beige maybe, I don't know bathing suit with a little nubble all over it and, what got me, the straps were down. They were off her shoulders looped loose around the cool tops of her arms, and I guess as a result the suit had slipped a little on her, so all around the top of the cloth there was this shining rim. If it hadn't been there you wouldn't have known there could have been anything whiter than those shoulders. With the straps pushed off, there was nothing between the top of the suit and the top of her head except just her, this clean bare plane of the top of her chest down from the shoulder bones like a dented sheet of metal tilted in the light. I mean, it was more than pretty.

34. Malaspina Great Books - John Updike (1932) john updike (March 18, 1932 ) is a novelist and short story author born in Shillington, Pennsylvania. updike s most famous works are his Rabbit series http://www.malaspina.com/site/person_1148.asp

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35. John Updike (B.1932) Comparisons can be drawn in this regard between updike and Philip Roth and john Irving. Useful, too, is a consideration of the several New Yorker short http://college.hmco.com/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/updike.html

John Updike (B.1932) Contributing Editor: George J. Searles Classroom Issues and Strategies It is sometimes said that Updike is too narrowly an interpreter of the WASP/yuppie environment, a realm of somewhat limited interest; another is that his work proceeds from a too exclusively male perspective. The former concern will, of course, be more/less problematic depending on the nature of the college (more problematic at an urban community college, less so at a "prestige" school). The latter charge, however, provides the basis for fruitful discussion in any academic environment. First, it's important to point out what Henry James In addition to Updike's stories, students should be referred to the magazine articles listed in the bibliography and to the 1979 short story collection Too Far To Go , which reprints all the previous "Maples" stories, along with several then-new ones including "Separating." Also useful is the videotaped television special based on that collection. Another instructive exercise is to compare this story with some of Updike's early poems, particularly "Home Movies"a little gem in its own right. Indeed, there's a direct echo of this poem near the story's conclusion: "We cannot climb back . . ./To that calm light. The brief film ends" is rendered in "Separating" as "You cannot climb back . . . you can only fall." Major Themes, Historical Perspectives, and Personal Issues

36. The Nobel Prize In Physics 1995 Cosmic Gall. john updike. Neutrinos they are very small. They have no charge and have no mass And do not interact at all. The earth is just a silly ball http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1995/illpres/cosmic-call.ht

Nobel Foundation Nobel Media Nobel Museum Nobel Peace Center ... Prize in Economics The Nobel Prize in Physics 1995 Cosmic Gall John Updike Neutrinos they are very small. They have no charge and have no mass And do not interact at all. The earth is just a silly ball To them, through which they simply pass, Like dustmaids down a drafty hall Or photons through a sheet of glass. They snub the most exquisite gas, Ignore the most substantial wall, Cold-shoulder steel and sounding brass, Insult the stallion in his stall, And, scorning barriers of class, Infiltrate you and me! Like tall And painless guillotines, they fall Down through our heads into the grass. At night, they enter at Nepal And pierce the lover and his lass It wonderful; I call it crass. Contents: Based on materials from the 1995 Nobel Poster for Physics.

37. Explosive Words - Washingtonpost.com When john updike approached the lectern in the Convention Center ballroom Saturday morning, most of his blearyeyed, coffee-swilling audience expected him http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/21/AR2006052101349_

var SA_Message="SACategory=" + 'artsandliving/books'; var adTemplate = templateConfigs[PRINTER_FRIENDLY_FLEX]; NEWS OPINIONS SPORTS Discussions ... REAL ESTATE Explosive Words At BookExpo America, Publishing's Digital Wave Crashes Against a Literary Pillar By Bob Thompson Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, May 22, 2006; C01 Think of it as the publishing industry's version of "Survivor." It was late Saturday afternoon at the Washington Convention Center. Half a dozen editors confronted an audience of several hundred booksellers as the moderator laid out the rules of engagement: "The six editors here will talk about a few a few of their favorite fall books," she said. They would have 12 minutes each. If anyone ran over, "we'll just vote them off the island." The "Buzz Forum," as this exercise in competitive salesmanship is called, represents business as usual for BookExpo America the annual publishing convention that brought roughly 25,000 book people to Washington over the weekend. If you listened, though, you could hear another kind of buzz at BEA this year. It was an angrier one, generated by a clash of cultures in an industry frazzled by technological change.

38. McSweeney's Internet Tendency: John Updike, Television Writer. john updike, TELEVISION WRITER. BY JARED YOUNG. - - -. Newhart. Dick Loudon, growing increasingly depressed about his middling career as a writer of http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2007/1/10young.html

In honor of The Believer 's 50th issue, every new Believer subscription this week will include a free sheet of temporary tattoos , featuring the work of Raymond Pettibon, Marcel Dzama, the Paper Rad collective, and many other artists of note. JOHN UPDIKE, TELEVISION WRITER. BY JARED YOUNG Newhart Dick Loudon, growing increasingly depressed about his middling career as a writer of do-it-yourself books, purchases a Connecticut guesthouse and moves there with his emotionally distant former mistress Joanna. But the chill New England air only serves to heighten the tension between them, and soon Dick begins an affair with Stephanie, the chambermaid. He makes love to her against a tree; his loins, too, seem armored with bark. Joanna learns of the affair, and sets out to seduce Stephanie's fiancé, Michael. On a ski trip to Vermont, drunk on brandy, the two adulterous couples make love in adjoining rooms, but in the void of uneasy silence born from their guilt, they feel no pleasure. The series ends as Dick dreams that he stayed married to his ex-wife. But there is no pleasure to be found in her aggressive domestic possession of him. Upon waking up, Dick goes for a walk and looks down upon the lush autumn trees, recalling a long-ago summer when he drove his father's car from rural Pennsylvania to Boston. A crow struck the windshield. The memory of the bird's mindless thrashing reminds Dick of the futility of his own reflexive lust, and for the first time in his life he looks forward to the orgasmic release of death.

39. BOUGHT THE FARM October 8, 2007 john updike has no use for the Big Apple. In his new collection of essays and criticism, Due Considerations, out this month from Knopf, http://www.nypost.com/seven/10082007/gossip/pagesix/bought_the_farm.htm

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40. John Updike : Brazil : Book Review Recommended fiction by john updike. Read a book review about Brazil. http://www.mostlyfiction.com/latin/updike.htm

skip to: page content links on this page site navigation footer (site information) Mostly Fiction BOOK REVIEWS all authors all titles newsletter home ... Author Info John Updike Author's Bibliography Book Marks About the Author MOSTLYFICTION.COM BOOKSHELF: Latin American NEXT AUTHOR ... Gabriel Gacia Marquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude READ MORE ... Maria Amparo Escandon: Experanza's Box of Saints Toni Morrison: Tar Baby If you find this site helpful please consider recommending it to your friends or place a link at your site to MostlyFiction.com Thank you for Supporting MostlyFiction.com! Buy "Rio De Janeiro Bay" by Martin Johnson Heade at AllPosters.com Jump over to read a review of ... Terrorist "Brazil" (Reviewed by Judi Clark FEB 3, 1998) This novel is about a love affair between a white privileged girl and a black teen from the streets of Rio who meet on the beach. But this is far from a Romeo and Juliet love story. (Would Juliet have prostituted herself for Romeo?) I liked this book when I read it, but most reviewers initially seemed to hate it. I don't know if it was because they didn't forgive Updike for trying out magical realism or if they don't like that genre of fiction to begin with. It certainly isn't the story itself since it reads like an adult fairy tale.

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