Even Rabbit Angstrom, John Updike's American Everyman, ended up in a Florida condo.
The first submission Marc Smirnoff received for the Oxford American was a poem from John Updike about a bowel movement.
" John Updike told a fuller story about characters from "Hamlet" (and other fictional sources) in his superb novel, "Gertrude and Claudius.
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The fact that none other than John Updike chronicled that game in a now legendary piece of writing was an added bonus.
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You must never skim a novel, because you're not reading a novel for information, you're reading it to luxuriate in those Updike sentences.
What I liked best was the autobiographical Updike, which I felt I was getting at the beginning and the end of the book.
"Conquerors and governments pass before the people as dim rumours, as entertainment in a hospital ward, " wrote John Updike in his novel The Coup.
Lawrence, and above all Melville, but not Don DeLillo, John Updike, Julian Barnes and others, who are all too tidy, controlling, and existentially complacent.
Here you'll find Gay Talese on Joe DiMaggio, John Updike on Ted Williams' last at-bat, Grantland Rice on the death of Babe Ruth, and more.
" John Updike has called Small Things "a Tiger Woodsian debut.
Even the poetic powers of John Updike, a golf fan, would be stretched to conjure up new ways to call Tiger Woods the best golfer of all time.
The titles, which will return to Amazon under Random House's control, include some of the most important works of 20th century American fiction by such writers as John Updike and Ralph Ellison.
Not long before he died, John Updike spoke eloquently of a book's "edges, " the boundaries that give shape and integrity to a literary work and that for centuries have found their outward expression in the indelibility of printed pages.
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Besides the letters (to a range of correspondents stretching from John Lennon and John Updike to Rajiv Gandhi and the socks department at Brooks Brothers), there are memorandums (many to the four Presidents he served, Lyndon Johnson and Gerald Ford being the others), notes to himself summarizing conversations he considered important, and entries from his private journal, which include some delightful travel writing.
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