John Updike ... that nobody else was saying,” Updike told Time magazine in 2006. He got his first inkling of this literary theme as a boy watching his father, Wesley Updike, a teacher.

Such a writer was John ... Updike is a sucker for poignancy, for the sense of “irrecoverable loss.” In 1976’s “ Here Come the Maples,” a quintessentially Updikean story in its theme ...

Even in his last photographs, after his hair had turned white and he had taken to peering out at the world over reading glasses, John Updike ... I suppose, Updike’s overriding theme, returned ...

It’s hard to believe the literary reputation of John Updike is still up for ... that’s both fair and informed. A recurring theme throughout “Updike” is the author’s penchant for turning ...

John Updike, who has died aged 76 ... be nice because they have these terrible sexual urges.' It is a theme that much of Updike's work has shared. In his childhood memoir The Dogwood Tree Updike ...

Russian readers got luckier with John Updike than their American counterparts. "The Centaur" virtually rained down on us, becoming for a time back in 1965 something of a cult novel, a password ...

2009-07-04T20:03:59-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/530/286892-m.jpgA panel of fellow writers and friends talked about two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author ...

John Updike ... that nobody else was saying,” Updike told Time magazine in 2006. He got his first inkling of this literary theme as a boy watching his father, Wesley Updike, a teacher.