41. Old Master In A Brave New World - TIME john updike has appeared on the cover of this magazine twice, once in 1968 and again Author john updike, at Harvard, both mourns and celebrates the U.S http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1198911,00.html

var s_account="timecom"; Time.com CNN.com Search Archive Home U.S. The Page Main ... Pictures of the Week Old Master in a Brave New World Sunday, May. 28, 2006 By LEV GROSSMAN Author John Updike, at Harvard, both mourns and celebrates the U.S JAME NACHTWEY / VII FOR TIME Article Tools Print Email Reprints Sphere addthis_url = location.href; addthis_title = document.title; addthis_pub = 'timecom'; RSS John Updike has appeared on the cover of this magazine twice, once in 1968 and again in 1982. The first time was for Couples, his then scandalous, still shocking novel of suburban partner swapping. The headline read THE ADULTEROUS SOCIETY. When he made the cover again, having just won nearly every literary award in existence for Rabbit Is Rich, the third in his four-volume Rabbit saga, he rated a somewhat tamer caption: GOING GREAT AT 50. Related Articles Sphere.Inline.search('sphereSideBar','http://time.com/') tiiQuigoWriteAd(755769, 1290761, 180, 200, -1); Updike is fond of that second cover. "It made me look smooth and kind of enigmatic," he says with a wry, twinkly smile. "All the things I want to be." And if he were on the cover today, what would the headline be? "STILL ALIVE, AMAZINGLY!" he suggests, getting even wryer and twinklier. "STILL ALIVEAND WHY?" With his 22nd novel, Terrorist (Knopf; 320 pages), Updike answers his own question. Terrorist is the startlingly contemporary story of Ahmad, a high school student in a crumbling New Jersey town whose zealous Islamic faith and disaffection with modern life make him a pawn in the larger, fitfully violent conflict between Muslim and Christian, East and West. They also make him a powerful voice for Updike's abiding, ongoing critique of American civilization, as well as a uniquely tragic individual in his own right.

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43. John Updike Time, 26Apr-1968, DETAILS Author john updike. Author of books The Carpentered Hen (1958, poetry) The Poorhouse Fair (1959, novel) http://www.nndb.com/people/811/000022745/

This is a beta version of NNDB Search: All Names Living people Dead people Band Names Book Titles Movie Titles Full Text for John Updike AKA John Hoyer Updike Born: 18-Mar Birthplace: Shillington, PA Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Novelist Nationality: United States Executive summary: Novelist, Rabbit, Run etc Father: Wesley Russell Updike (high school science teacher) Mother: Linda Grace Hoyer (homemaker) Wife: Mary E. Pennington (m. 26-Jun-1953, two daughters, two sons) Daughter: Elizabeth Son: David Son: Michael Daughter: Miranda Wife: Martha Ruggles Bernhard (m. 1977) High School: Shillington High School, Shillington, PA (1950) University: BA English, Harvard University (1954, summa cum laude) The New Yorker Harvard Lampoon 4-H Club ... National Book Award for Fiction 1964 for The Centaur National Book Award for Fiction 1982 for Rabbit Is Rich Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1982 for Rabbit Is Rich Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1991 for Rabbit at Rest American Book Award 1982 for Rabbit Is Rich William Dean Howells Medal 1991 for Rabbit at Rest National Humanities Medal PEN/Faulkner Award 2004 for The Early Stories Guggenheim Fellowship Richard and Hilda Rosenthal Award National Medal of Arts Risk Factors: Psoriasis Stuttering Appears on the cover of: Time , 26-Apr-1968, DETAILS : Author John Updike Author of books: The Carpentered Hen , poetry) The Poorhouse Fair , novel) Rabbit, Run

44. Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly . WEB EXCLUSIVE . John Updike On Religion . Novembe 18, novelist john updike spoke at the Center for Religious Inquiry at St. Bartholomew s Church in New York City. Read Benedicta Cipolla s report. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/week812/exclusive.html

var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); Cover Perspectives Profile Web Exclusive WEB EXCLUSIVE: John Updike on Religion November 19, 2004 Episode no. 812 January 25, 2008 Current Stories Religion and the Presidential Primaries Bioethics Update The 5 Browns Jewish Life and Times at the Movies Headlines: This Week in Religion News On Thursday, Nov. 18, novelist John Updike spoke at the Center for Religious Inquiry at St. Bartholomew's Church in New York City. Read Benedicta Cipolla's report. After 21 novels and countless short stories, John Updike still creates characters who behave in the usual Updikean fashion, embarking on ribald sexual escapades and wrestling with spiritual and moral angst. His latest book, VILLAGES, published in October to mixed reviews, returns to the themes first mined to full effect in the 1960s in works such as RABBIT, RUN and COUPLES of mortality, salvation, and lots of sex. John Updike the man, however, seems to have mellowed with age, reaching peace after his own professed search for existential comfort. At a talk on religion in his work Thursday evening (Nov. 18) at St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church in Manhattan, Updike told the audience of 300 that his Christian faith had "solidified in ways less important to me than when I was 30, when the existential predicament was realer to me than now. ... I worked a lot of it through and arrived at a sort of safe harbor in my life."

45. Bold Type: Reading By John Updike Streaming audio clip of the author reading from his story. http://www.randomhouse.com/boldtype/1298/updike/reading.html

John Updike reads his short story "The Witnesses." This streaming audio clip can be played with the RealPlayer or RealAudio player, available free from Progressive Networks

46. "Among The Reviewers: John Updike And The Book-review Bugaboo" By Wyatt Mason (H That it has in a glass case, among assorted pricey rarities, scores of john updike’s review copies might be cause to loiter. http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/12/0081837

HOME SUBSCRIBE ARCHIVE SUBJECTS ... SKIP to main content USERNAME PASSWORD Subscriber? Lost password? Jan Feb ... NEXT TITLE Among the reviewers: John Updike and the book-review bugaboo TYPE Review BY Wyatt Mason PUBLISHED December 2007 VIEW PAGES PDF Lately, manifestos on the matter of book reviewing seem to be cropping up all over. “The pabulum that passes for most reviews is an insult to the intelligence of most readers,” wrote Steve Wasserman in the Columbia Journalism Review this fall, just months after Cynthia Ozick, lamenting in these pages the decline in popular conversation about books, declared, “What is not happening is literary criticism.” Nor is such exasperation confined to our more seasoned commentators. In the new literary journal n+1 , dissatisfaction found a specific target, The New Republic : “Its method was wholly negative… indiscriminately so.” And a 2003 essay on reviewing and its discontents in McSweeney’s offshoot The Believer found editor Heidi Julavits observing that “a lot of books are reviewed by people who don’t read books unless they’re reviewing them.”

47. Bizarre Dinosaurs - National Geographic Magazine Online By john updike, Art by Renegade 9, Pixeldust Studios. A bizarre gallery of Mesozoic monsters prompts john updike to ask What has evolution wrought? http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/2007-12/bizarre-dinosaurs/updike-text.html

Sorry, your browser does not support iframes. Bizarre Dinosaurs December 2007 Feature Main Page Photo Gallery John Updike Interview Test Your Dino IQ Dinosaurs: 1942 to 2000 ... Learn More By John Updike Art by Renegade 9, Pixeldust Studios A bizarre gallery of Mesozoic monsters prompts JOHN UPDIKE to ask: What has evolution wrought? Before the 19th century, when dinosaur bones turned up they were taken as evidence of dragons, ogres, or giant victims of Noah's Flood. After two centuries of paleontological harvest, the evidence seems stranger than any fable, and continues to get stranger. Dozens of new species emerge each year; China and Argentina are hot spots lately for startling new finds. Contemplating the bizarre specimens recently come to light, one cannot but wonder what on earth Nature was thinking of. What advantage was conferred, say, by the ungainly eight-foot-long (2.4 meters) arms and huge triple claws of Deinocheirus? Or, speaking of arms, by Mononykus 's smug dependence on a single, stoutly clawed digit at the end of each minimal forearm? Guesses can be hazarded: The latter found a single stubby claw just the thing for probing after insects; the former stripped the leaves and bark from trees in awesome bulk. A carnivorous cousin, Deinonychus , about the size of a man, leaped on its prey, wrapped its long arms and three-fingered hands around it, and kicked it to the death with sickle-shaped toenails.

48. John Updike Quotes john updike Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity. Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better. http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/j/johnupdike393205.html

Add the "Quote of the Day" to Your Site or Blog - it's EASY! Home Quote Topics Quote Keywords ... Author Nationalities Authors: A B C D ... Z Web brainyquote.com John Updike Quotes Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity. Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better. John Updike Vote on this Quote: Bad Good Type: Novelist Quotes Category: American Novelist Quotes Date of Birth: March 18 Nationality: American Amazon: John Updike on Amazon Related Authors: Anne Rice Ernest Hemingway Gore Vidal Herman Melville ... Will Thomas More John Updike Quotations: A healthy male adult bore... A leader is one who... A narrative is like a... America is a vast conspiracy... ... Writing criticism is to... Quote Keywords: About Activity Any Becomes ... Right Dictionary Links: About Activity Any Better ... RSS Feeds About Us Inquire Privacy Terms

49. Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu By John Updike Baseball Almanac presents Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu, an original baseball article written by researcher john updike. http://www.baseball-almanac.com/articles/hub_fans_bid_kid_adieu_article.shtml

Site Navigation Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu by John Updike Baseball Almanac is pleased to present a moving, very detailed, highly informative article about Ted Williams and his life, times, and final moments in Fenway Park. "The affair between Boston and Ted Williams has been no mere summer romance; it has been a marriage, composed of spats, mutual disappointments, and, toward the end, a mellowing hoard of shared memories." - John Updike in Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu (1960) Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu by John Updike Author: John Updike ©. Published: 1960-10-22. Appeared On: The New Yorker. F I arrived early. The Orioles were hitting fungos on the field. The day before, they had spitefully smothered the Red Sox, 17-4, and neither their faces nor their drab gray visiting-team uniforms seemed very gracious. I wondered who had invited them to the party. Between our heads and the lowering clouds a frenzied organ was thundering through, with an appositeness perhaps accidental, "You maaaade me love you, I didn't wanna do it, I didn't wanna do it . . ." The affair between Boston and Ted Williams has been no mere summer romance; it has been a marriage, composed of spats, mutual disappointments, and, toward the end, a mellowing hoard of shared memories. It falls into three stages, which may be termed Youth, Maturity, and Age; or Thesis, Antithesis, and Synthesis; or Jason, Achilles, and Nestor.

50. John Updike, The Witches Of Eastwick A major subject in john updike s novels is the fallout of sex (usually adultery) and how it causes friction in otherwise smooth relationships. http://www.greenmanreview.com/book/book_updike_witches.html

John Updike, The Witches of Eastwick (Alfred A. Knopf, 1984; Ballantine, 1996) Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie are three former wives living in the late sixties in a small Rhode Island town. They are also witches. For example, if Alexandra wants the beach to herself, a simple whipped-up thunderstorm does the trick nicely, and tennis games are made more challenging by balls that transform into frogs. Having, with considerable overlap, worked their way sexually through all the eligible and ineligible, which they actually prefer men in the area, the three become very intrigued at the appearance of the man who just moved into the old Lenox mansion down the street: one Darryl Van Horne from Manhattan. (The triumvirate's interest quickly leads to a menage a quatre in Van Horne's humongous teak bathtub.) A major subject in John Updike's novels is the fallout of sex (usually adultery) and how it causes friction in otherwise smooth relationships. Thus, it's not long before Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie are vying individually for further attention from Van Horne, to the detriment of their longterm friendship. And after a murder/suicide brings a fourth and younger female into the equation, tensions rise even further, especially when the new girl moves in with Van Horne. Updike is not well-known for his sympathetic portrayals of women. His female characters are either jealous and vindictive, naive and unconditional, or are the sex objects causing those emotions in the other women. The three title characters are easily separable from one another fully developed characters, even in short stories, are an Updike strong point but they are scarily similar in their combined response to this conflict, using their magic for their own petty gain. To them, this girl, despite their initial instinct to mother her, is a pest equivalent to a squirrel filching from a bird feeder. As such, the reader has difficulty feeling any sympathy towards them, or towards their subsequent guilt. These are not nice women.

51. The Bat Segundo Show #50: John Updike : The Bat Segundo Show A quirky literary podcast featuring indepth interviews with contemporary authors and other figures. Interviews include David Lynch, john updike, http://www.edrants.com/segundo/the-bat-segundo-show-50/

A cultural podcast in tenebrous standing The Bat Segundo Show Bat Segundo Home Segundo Archive About the Show ... Filthy Habits (daily cultural commentary) www.edrants.com The Bat Segundo Show #50: John Updike Author: John Updike Condition of Mr. Segundo: Defending himself against obnoxious talk show hosts and ready to move on. Subjects Discussed: Epigraphs, faith and disbelief, starting Terrorist The Mercy Seat The Bat Segundo Show #50: John Updike [01:01:36m]: Play Now Play in Popup Download Posted In: Uncategorized on July 14, 2006 Old Hag says: Patrick says: Ari says: says: Michael Rice says: Great Interview. Congratulations on your YAHOO pick of the week award!!!!! That is definitely cool as hell. And congratulations on reaching podcast #50. You have great production values. I hereby deem the Bat Segundo COOL AS HELL!!! says: says: Leave a Reply Name (required) Mail (will not be published) (required) Website Search Inquiries Please direct all inquires concerning booking guests, advertising, messages to Mr. Segundo, and the like to Edward Champion . Please note that while we return all email (eventually), because of the unique and heavily researched nature of these interviews, it is impossible to interview everybody. Although we certainly do our best.

52. A Brush With History - Portraits As a chronicler of modern life and the anxieties revealed in suburban existence, john updike has established himself as one of America s most eminent men of http://www.npg.si.edu/cexh/brush/index/portraits/updike.htm

return JOHN UPDIKE (born 1932) by Alex Katz (born 1927) As a chronicler of modern life and the anxieties revealed in suburban existence, John Updike has established himself as one of America's most eminent men of letters. His many novels, including Rabbit Run (1960)—which chronicles the life of a former well-known athlete, Harry ("Rabbit") Angstrom, who, unable to recapture success when encumbered by marriage and small-town life, flees these responsibilities— Rabbit Redux Rabbit Is Rich (1981), and Rabbit at Rest (1990), are written in a prose style characterized by wit, detachment, and a penchant for detailing every aspect of a character's life. Prolific, Updike has also published short stories, as well as nonfiction and criticism. Alex Katz, a New York-based artist, first came to prominence in the early 1960s with the advent of the Pop Art movement. He is known for his larger-than-life portraits in which flattened forms fill the canvas. Oil on canvas, 1982 Time cover, October 18, 1982 National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

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54. John Updike - Hamish Hamilton Authors - Hamish Hamilton Find information on john updike, including popular titles and books by john updike. Read more with Hamish Hamilton. http://www.hamishhamilton.co.uk/nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,505_1000032894,00.html

SYM=GetSymbol('BIO'); Your Account View Basket Literary Consequences Steven Heighton continues the tale Find a book Browse by author Advanced Search Site Map John Updike John Updike was born in 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania. He attended Shillington High School, Harvard College and the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art at Oxford, where he spent a year on a Knox Fellowship. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of the staff of the New Yorker, to which he has contributed numerous poems, short stories, essays and book reviews. Since 1957 he has lived in Massachusetts as a freelance writer. John Updike's first novel, The Poorhouse Fair, was published in 1959. It was followed by Rabbit, Run, the first volume of what have become known as the Rabbit books, which John Banville described as 'one of the finest literary achievements to have come out of the US since the war'. Rabbit is Rich (1981) and Rabbit at Rest (1990) were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters Email Alerts To keep up-to-date, input your email address, and we will contact you on publication

55. Special Collections Library This introduction will provide you with some background on john updike, Buchanan Dying with a new foreword by john updike is available in hardcover for http://www.libraries.psu.edu/speccolls/rbm/collections/BuchananDying/index.htm

56. Nan, American Man - John Updike :: China Digital Times (CDT) 中国 In the New Yorker, john updike reviews Ha Jin s new novel, A Free Life. His new novel, “A Free Life,” (Pantheon; $26), is a relatively lumpy and http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2007/11/nan_american_man_john_updike.php

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57. John Updike, Writer updike, john, The Poorhouse Fair, 1959. Rabbit, Run, 1960. updike, john, The Best American Short Stories of the Century, Houghton Mifflin, http://www.hycyber.com/HF/updike_john.html

John Updike Novels Updike, John, The Poorhouse Fair, Rabbit, Run, The Centaur, Of the Farm, Couples, Rabbit Redux, A Month of Sundays, Marry Me, The Coup, Rabbit Is Rich, The Witches of Eastwick, 1984. Cinema: The Witches of Eastwick S., Rabbit at Rest, Memories of the Ford Administration, Brazil, Gertrude and Claudius, Seek My Face, Original Short Fiction Updike, John, The New Yorker Playboy Collections of Short Fiction Updike, John, The Same Door, Pigeon Feathers, Olinger Stories, The Music School, Bech: A Book, Museums and Women Knopf, New York, 1972. Too Far to Go, Problems, Bech Is Back, Trust Me, Afterlife Knopf, New York, 1994. ISBN: 0-679-43583-2 Licks of Love Poetry Updike, John, The Carpentered Hen, Telephone Poles, Midpoint, Tossing and Turning, Facing Nature, Knopf, New York, 1985. ISBN: 0-394-54385-8 Anthology of Short Fiction Edited Updike, John, The Best American Short Stories of the Century Houghton Mifflin, New York, 1999. ISBN: 0-395-84368-5

58. John Updike - Penguin UK Authors - Penguin UK Find information on john updike, including popular titles and books by john updike. Read more with Penguin UK. http://www.penguin.co.uk/nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,1000032894,00.html

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59. John Updike On Chip Kidd | By Genre | Guardian Unlimited Books Review Roundup of celebrity biographies. UP. Cover stories. john updike on why Chip Kidd s bookjacket designs are unrivalled Thursday March 16, 2006 http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/artsandentertainment/story/0,,1732089,00

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60. John Updike In celebration of john updike as one of the Poets of Cambridge. . . USA, here is an excerpt from “Apologies to Harvard,” his 1973 Phi Beta Kappa poem http://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/poets/updike.php

Poets of Cambridge, U.S.A. Other Poets Henry Adams John Quincy Adams James Agee Conrad Aiken ... Jones Very Amazon Note: You will help our service to grow when you order anything from Amazon via our non-profit website: HarvardSquareLibrary.org Click Here to visit Amazon now John Updike John Updike Born during the Depression in Reading, Pennsylvania, Updike grew up in the nearby tiny town of Shillington with his parents and grandparents. He wanted to become a writer, often reading daily two of the available mysteries and thrillers of the day. A scholarship to Harvard College led to his becoming editor of the Harvard Lampoon , “the world’s oldest humor magazine.” Updike’s model authors were James Thurber and Robert Benchley. Upon graduating, Updike was for two years a New Yorker staff reporter. By the age of twenty-three, he began supporting himself and his family by his writing. Early in the twenty-first century he was the author of more than fifty books. His internationally popular series of Rabbit Run novels revealed shocking details of small town Protestant upwardly mobile middle-class white activities involving sex, faith, and death.

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