Elizabeth RicketsonSomething Updike Might Imagine…The task of locating a specific cardboard box in our basement initially felt laborious but it was easier than anticipated. Memories and…Jun 19
Ted BurkeJOHN UPDIKE’S UNDER PRAISED GENIUSNorman Mailer, in a breezy dismissal of John Updike’s novel Rabbit Run, called Updike the sort of writer who was popular with the mass of…May 111May 111
Kyle JohnsonReading Updike, RabbitI was not warned about John Updike until ten years after I first read his work. As a contrarian, the very warning I received (“Don’t go…Jun 6, 2021Jun 6, 2021
Kurt FroeseFake NamesEntering the train Robert didn’t want to talk to anyone. Once seated, the couple across from him bobbing gently with the rhythm of the…Jan 31Jan 31
Elizabeth RicketsonSomething Updike Might Imagine…The task of locating a specific cardboard box in our basement initially felt laborious but it was easier than anticipated. Memories and…Jun 19
Ted BurkeJOHN UPDIKE’S UNDER PRAISED GENIUSNorman Mailer, in a breezy dismissal of John Updike’s novel Rabbit Run, called Updike the sort of writer who was popular with the mass of…May 111
Kyle JohnsonReading Updike, RabbitI was not warned about John Updike until ten years after I first read his work. As a contrarian, the very warning I received (“Don’t go…Jun 6, 2021
Kurt FroeseFake NamesEntering the train Robert didn’t want to talk to anyone. Once seated, the couple across from him bobbing gently with the rhythm of the…Jan 31
Colton Royle“Gesturing” in RimworldMy favorite short story of John Updike’s is the one titled “Gesturing.”Aug 11, 2020
Quote Investigator®Quote Origin: Writing and Rewriting Are a Constant Search for What It Is One Is SayingJohn Updike? William W. West? Donald M. Murray? Catherine Ann Jones? Apocryphal?Aug 22, 20231
Ted BurkeDefending John UpdikeBack in 2012 essayist Katie Roiphe did a wonderful job of defending the late novelist John Updike against the onslaught of posthumous nay…Jan 28, 2016