61. BookExpoCast » Blog Archive » BEA #2 - John Updike Speech john updike Due to the keen interest in john updike’s speech at the Saturday Book Author Breakfast, we are releasing it as a separate podcast. http://bookexpocast.com/?p=12

62. John Updike Life Stories, Books, & Links Stories about john updike s life and Brazil, Centaur. With links to essays literary criticism and analysis. http://www.todayinliterature.com/biography/john.updike.asp

TABLE OF CONTENTS John Updike - Life Stories, Books, and Links Biographical Information Stories about John Updike Selected works by this author Selected books about / related to this author ... Recommended links BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION John Updike (1932 - ) Category: American Literature Born: 1932 Shillington, Pennsylvania, United States Related authors: No related authors found list all writers John Updike - LIFE STORIES Updike's Long-Run Rabbits On this day in 1932 John Updike was born. In a writing career approaching fifty years and as many books, the five Rabbit novels (counting the 2000 novella, Rabbit Remembered ) stand out as a bell tolling, at decade intervals, for Harry Angstrom and America. Two of them won Pulitzers; one of them was reviewed as a book "that one can set beside the work of Dickens, Thackeray, George Eliot, Joyce and not feel the draft." top of page SELECTED WORKS BY THIS AUTHOR Americana : and Other Poems anthology, poems

63. IPL Online Literary Criticism Collection Use these links to search for john updike outside the IPL. Click a link below to automatically search that site for john updike. articles on john updike http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/bin/litcrit.out.pl?au=upd-338

64. John Updike - Paper Cuts - Books - New York Times Blog What was special about this galley and the reason it was offered at $1250 - is that john updike had filled it with comments while preparing a review for http://papercuts.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/john-updike/

Home Page My Times Today's Paper Video ... Times Topics Books All NYT document.write(day + " " + month + " " + myweekday + ", " + year); Books World U.S. N.Y. / Region ... Autos Tag: john updike December 18, 2007, 10:28 am Unlikely Stories By Dwight Garner There are exactly seven shopping days left until Christmas. If you need to throw a few Hail-Mary passes, gift-wise, here’s an idea for you: give story collections. They are elegant – nearly as elegant as books of poems - and inexpensive and, unlike a novel, they can be read piecemeal. Your recipient can graze dreamily on your gift over the holidays, rather than being forced to sit down to a big meal that might possibly include a big overcooked (literary) turkey. A few of my favorites story collections are pictured above, in no particular order. Each has meant a lot to me over time, and I’ve read most of the stories in each more than twice. (In case any of my relatives are reading this, psst , I’m not certain I have first editions of any of them.) What are the best books of stories of the last century, anyway? Joyce’s “Dubliners”? Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find?” John Cheever’s “The Enormous Radio and Other Stories”? Hemingway’s “In Our Time”? Grace Paley’s “Enormous Changes at the Last Minute”? Jhumpa Lahiri’s “Interpreter of Maladies”? Denis Johnson’s “Jesus’ Son”? I’m curious to hear your favorites. To make this all a bit trickier and more interesting, I’d rather hear about books that aren’t “best of” collections, such as “The Stories of John Cheever.” I have nothing against those books. I’d just rather go back to origins.

65. John Updike Is No Anti-Semite. - By Timothy Noah - Slate Magazine The Nov. 26 New York Observer carries a bracingly stupid editorial accusing john updike of antiSemitism because, in a recent New Yorker review of Peter http://www.slate.com/id/2091740/

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66. Austin Public Library Blog For this reader (and thousands of others), excellence and john updike john updike’s writings harvest this simultaneously inward and outward experience. http://austinpubliclibrary.statesmanblogs.com/entry.aspx?q=2eed2b84-f3a6-4257-9a

67. Did I Say That, Or Did John Updike? | The Onion - America's Finest News Source I m glad we finally got this out in the open. I mean, That a marriage ends is less than ideal, but all things end under heaven, right? http://www.theonion.com/content/node/34112

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68. PAL: John Updike (1932- ) john updike and the Cold War Drawing the Iron Curtain. Neary, john. Something and Nothingness The Fiction of john updike and john Fowles. http://web.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap10/updike.html

PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide - An Ongoing Project Paul P. Reuben (To send an email, please click on my name above.) Chapter 10: John Updike (1932 - ) Primary Works Selected Bibliography 1980-Present MLA Style Citation of this Web Page Chap. 10: Index ... Home Page Source: Untitled Primary Works The Poorhouse Fair, Rabbit Run, Pigeon Feathers, 1962 (collection); The Centaur, Of The Farm, The Angels, Couples, Rabbit Redux, Museums And Women, 1972 (collection); Picked-Up Pieces, A Month Of Sundays, Marry Me, The Coup, Problems, 1979 (collection); To Far To Go, 1979 (collection); Rabbit Is Rich, Bech Is Back, Beloved, The Witches Of Eastwick, 1984; Jester's Dozen, 1984; Soft Spring Night In Shillington, Roger's Version, Trust Me, 1987 (collection); Out On The Marsh, S, Rabbit At Rest, Brazil, The Afterlife, 1994(collection); The Beauty Of The Lilies, Golf Dreams, Deadly Sins, Toward The End Of Time, Bech at Bay: a quasi-novel, Gertrude and Claudius, Seek My Face, Self-consciousness: memoirs.

69. IMS: John Updike, HarperAudio Author and poet john updike reads excerpts from his short story The Persistence of Desire. updike s characters tend to be superficially ordinary http://town.hall.org/radio/HarperAudio/030194_harp_ITH.html

"The Persistence of Desire" Author and poet John Updike reads excerpts from his short story "The Persistence of Desire." Updike's characters tend to be superficially ordinary suburbanites with complex interior lives. By providing minutely detailed descriptions of common objects and actions in a style rich with metaphors, Updike adds significance to their actions and personalities. In this story, a man visits an eye doctor and meets an old flame. This recording was made in 1969. The story is in two parts, and has been edited for length. Part 1 .au format (5 Mb), .gsm format (0.6 Mb), .ra format (0.4 Mb). Part 1 .au format (5 Mb), .gsm format (0.6 Mb), .ra format (0.4 Mb). "Fanning's Island" John Updike reads from "Pigeon Feathers," a book of his short stories. In this story, "Fanning's Island," he discusses how Polynesia became populated and speculates on the origin of cultural relics found on a remote island. Adopting the voice of a long-ago native warrior, he tells a poignant tale of men isolated on the island, their numbers gradually dwindling. Updike's other published works include the novels "Rabbit Run," "Couples," and "The Witches of Eastwick." This recording was made in 1969.

70. Terrorist By John Updike - Book Review Of John Updike's Terrorist Terrorist by john updike is the story of an 18 year old New Jersey boy who is a devout Muslim and is recruited to be a terrorist. Terrorist is updike s 22nd http://bestsellers.about.com/od/fictionreviews/gr/terrorist_updik.htm

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71. Forbes.com: Digital Rules By Rich Karlgaard Enter john updike, the novelist and New Yorker magazine critic of Amity Shlaes book. Perhaps sensing Shlaes factual command, updike goes emotional on us. http://blogs.forbes.com/digitalrules/2007/07/john-updikes-em.html

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75. John Updike, A&P john updike ( 1932 ). A P . Study Questions. Is Sammy s quitting a form of rebellion or a statement of some sort? Does it have any meaning? http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/english/fajardo/teaching/srp435/updike.htm

John Updike ( 1932- ) "A&P" Study Questions Is Sammy's quitting a form of rebellion or a statement of some sort? Does it have any meaning? What is he rebelling against? Are there unconscious targets of his rebellion? Who is the enemy here? Are there any forms of oppression at work in the story? Who is oppressed (or "embarrassed" for that matter)? Is Sammy's standing up for the girls in some way a form of standing up for himself? On what phenomena is Updike commenting in this short story? What's the connection between sexual titillation, a chain grocery store, and a rebel without a cause? What makes Sammy quit? Why was he not so sad about it? Why was the world going to be so difficult for him now? Is Sammy fully aware of the character and implications of his gesture? What social class issues/conflicts become apparent in the story? Is Queenie an upper class girl? What does Sammy think? How does he imagine her life? How does he contrast his own existence to that of Queenie? Is Queenie her real name? What does Sammy know for a fact about her? What does her behavior reveal? Why does Sammy imagine her to be of higher class? How is that supposition related to his later actions? What in a sense is he trying to achieve by impressing Queenie? How are sexuality and desire related to issues of class and socioeconomic status? How are they related to issues of consumption and merchandising? Is Sammy in a sense choosing a "commodity" which he'd like to consume? How is that commodity related to his own socioeconomic position?

76. Novelist John Updike Takes Criticism To Heart | GuideLive.com | Arts/Entertainme GuideLive.com, from The Dallas Morning News, is an arts and entertainment guide to the DallasFort Worth area. Restaurants, movies, theater, concerts, http://www.guidelive.com/sharedcontent/dws/ent/books/stories/DN-bk_updikeintervi

Books What to do in Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas Make This Your Home Page Get GuideLive Newsletters Home The Arts ... Search Archives Novelist John Updike takes criticism to heart BOOKS: Updike takes criticism to heart, scratching up his New Yorker reviews 12:00 AM CST on Wednesday, January 9, 2008 By JOHN FREEMAN / Special Contributor to The Dallas Morning News books@dallasnews.com Few American writers have played at the highest level in as many forms as John Updike. He made his debut 50 years ago with a book of light verse, followed in 1959 with a collection of stories and a short novel. In 1960 he published Rabbit, Run , the novel that established him at the front rank of postwar American writers. Since then, Mr. Updike, who will address a sold-out Nasher Salon on Thursday, has added plays, memoir, children's literature, the libretto and, most especially, criticism to his list of facilities. In fact, in the past half century he has been one of America's most prolific and engaging critics. Starting in the early 1960s, when he offered himself up to The New Yorker as a book critic, he has turned out two volumes of art criticism and another six of assorted nonfiction. All told, they amount to about 5,000 pages of his thoughts on everything from cars to books to the value of owning art.

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