Tired: R.E.M. has zero cultural footprint.
Wired: John Updike has zero cultural footprint.
Wired: John Updike has zero cultural footprint.
September 26, 2026 at 4:32 PM
Tired: R.E.M. has zero cultural footprint.
Wired: John Updike has zero cultural footprint.
Wired: John Updike has zero cultural footprint.
John Updike reflecting on a girl's fragrance in the fall, one "woven of tobacco, powder, lipstick, rinsed hair, and that perhaps imaginary and certainly elusive scent that wool...seems to yield when the cloudless fall sky...lifts toward the glad exhalations of all things."
September 26, 2026 at 3:15 PM
John Updike reflecting on a girl's fragrance in the fall, one "woven of tobacco, powder, lipstick, rinsed hair, and that perhaps imaginary and certainly elusive scent that wool...seems to yield when the cloudless fall sky...lifts toward the glad exhalations of all things."
Charles Trueheart, who wrote elegant profiles for The Washington Post and served as a foreign correspondent before drawing on his family’s experiences in an acclaimed book about the Vietnam War, died Sept. 15 at his home in Virginia. He was 75.
Charles Trueheart, Post reporter and author who ‘could do it all,’ dies at 75
He profiled John Updike and Norman Mailer, served as a foreign correspondent in Canada and France, and wrote a prizewinning book about the Vietnam War.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 26, 2026 at 8:00 AM
Charles Trueheart, who wrote elegant profiles for The Washington Post and served as a foreign correspondent before drawing on his family’s experiences in an acclaimed book about the Vietnam War, died Sept. 15 at his home in Virginia. He was 75.
it smells like updike in here
September 26, 2026 at 1:22 AM
it smells like updike in here
Ok, so young John Updike looks like Millhouse. 😁
September 26, 2026 at 12:21 AM
Ok, so young John Updike looks like Millhouse. 😁
“‘Rushdie as a literary performer suffers from being not just an author but a cause célèbre and a free-speech martyr,’ wrote John Updike. I think Updike is right. Salman Rushdie, the person, hovers over his novels, shadowing and diminishing them.”
www.thebeliever.net/les-nobelisa...
www.thebeliever.net/les-nobelisa...
Les Nobélisables: Salman Rushdie - Believer Magazine
“Not granting me the Nobel Prize has become a Scandinavian tradition,” remarked Jorge Luis Borges. “Since I was born they have not been granting it to me.” For this column, I’ve written short essays…
www.thebeliever.net
September 24, 2026 at 1:01 PM
“‘Rushdie as a literary performer suffers from being not just an author but a cause célèbre and a free-speech martyr,’ wrote John Updike. I think Updike is right. Salman Rushdie, the person, hovers over his novels, shadowing and diminishing them.”
www.thebeliever.net/les-nobelisa...
www.thebeliever.net/les-nobelisa...
Someday, somebody will find my palimpsest.
When I was a student going to book readings, I usually couldn't afford an author's new book, so I asked them to sign my Complete Shakespeare.
Which is why it's signed by John Updike, Mark Strand, Leslie Feinberg, William Kittredge, and dozens more 😂
When I was a student going to book readings, I usually couldn't afford an author's new book, so I asked them to sign my Complete Shakespeare.
Which is why it's signed by John Updike, Mark Strand, Leslie Feinberg, William Kittredge, and dozens more 😂
September 24, 2026 at 6:06 AM
Someday, somebody will find my palimpsest.
When I was a student going to book readings, I usually couldn't afford an author's new book, so I asked them to sign my Complete Shakespeare.
Which is why it's signed by John Updike, Mark Strand, Leslie Feinberg, William Kittredge, and dozens more 😂
When I was a student going to book readings, I usually couldn't afford an author's new book, so I asked them to sign my Complete Shakespeare.
Which is why it's signed by John Updike, Mark Strand, Leslie Feinberg, William Kittredge, and dozens more 😂
Who was a better Writer John Updike or Douglas Adams
Some people say the better writer was John Updike. But they are wrong. Because look at Rabbit Run on the one hand and Hitchhiker on the other hand. Hitchhiker is better. It is funnier and has more good ideas. Therefore Adams is the better writer.
Some people say the better writer was John Updike. But they are wrong. Because look at Rabbit Run on the one hand and Hitchhiker on the other hand. Hitchhiker is better. It is funnier and has more good ideas. Therefore Adams is the better writer.
September 23, 2026 at 6:04 PM
Who was a better Writer John Updike or Douglas Adams
Some people say the better writer was John Updike. But they are wrong. Because look at Rabbit Run on the one hand and Hitchhiker on the other hand. Hitchhiker is better. It is funnier and has more good ideas. Therefore Adams is the better writer.
Some people say the better writer was John Updike. But they are wrong. Because look at Rabbit Run on the one hand and Hitchhiker on the other hand. Hitchhiker is better. It is funnier and has more good ideas. Therefore Adams is the better writer.
A feminist rereading of the Updike rabbit novels based on the Reading Pa connection
September 22, 2026 at 8:17 PM
A feminist rereading of the Updike rabbit novels based on the Reading Pa connection
I mean, Sinclair Lewis was fucking awesome (Updike much less awesome) and assuming he can read at all, I don’t think Stephens would like Lewis’ take on the white male condition (boring, stifled, and ridiculous).
September 22, 2026 at 7:10 PM
I mean, Sinclair Lewis was fucking awesome (Updike much less awesome) and assuming he can read at all, I don’t think Stephens would like Lewis’ take on the white male condition (boring, stifled, and ridiculous).
‘Rabbits’ by Lynch as stealth Updike adaptation.
September 22, 2026 at 3:21 PM
‘Rabbits’ by Lynch as stealth Updike adaptation.
Mailer and Updike and Roth and [name here] heavily promoted by the NYTBR in their lifetimes.
we can't deny the marginalization of straight white male writers. stephen king and g.r.r. martin out on the street begging for table scraps
September 22, 2026 at 3:17 PM
Mailer and Updike and Roth and [name here] heavily promoted by the NYTBR in their lifetimes.
“Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us. ” John Updike
September 21, 2026 at 10:42 PM
“Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us. ” John Updike
#MelvilleMonday
"I'll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy."
Moby-Dick, Ch. 10
"I'll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy."
Moby-Dick, Ch. 10
September 21, 2026 at 1:28 PM
#MelvilleMonday
"I'll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy."
Moby-Dick, Ch. 10
"I'll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy."
Moby-Dick, Ch. 10
“Rain is grace; rain is sky descending to earth; without rain there would be no life.”
- John Updike
- John Updike
September 20, 2026 at 10:51 AM
“Rain is grace; rain is sky descending to earth; without rain there would be no life.”
- John Updike
- John Updike
Eminem John Updike
🤝
blatant self-insert
named "Rabbit"
🤝
blatant self-insert
named "Rabbit"
September 20, 2026 at 10:45 AM
Eminem John Updike
🤝
blatant self-insert
named "Rabbit"
🤝
blatant self-insert
named "Rabbit"
It really was a good thing for culture when SFF was known to be a haven for adolescent power fantasies and thinly veiled kinks, and adults read Carver, Updike, etc.
September 19, 2026 at 6:40 PM
It really was a good thing for culture when SFF was known to be a haven for adolescent power fantasies and thinly veiled kinks, and adults read Carver, Updike, etc.
Ayer le hablé a mi amiga D. de la atracción que a veces siento por la manera de narrar de algún autor o autora. Un ejemplo, el comienzo de 'Puerca tierra', de John Berger. ¿Por qué me haces, estimado John, pasar por esa experiencia, a mí que soy animalista? Pues lo hace. También hablamos de Updike.
September 19, 2026 at 10:39 AM
Ayer le hablé a mi amiga D. de la atracción que a veces siento por la manera de narrar de algún autor o autora. Un ejemplo, el comienzo de 'Puerca tierra', de John Berger. ¿Por qué me haces, estimado John, pasar por esa experiencia, a mí que soy animalista? Pues lo hace. También hablamos de Updike.
An Updike interview line I read as a youth: “The hardest thing I do each day is climb the stairs to my writing room. And the second hardest thing I do is climb back down.”
That job, I thought. I want that job.
That job, I thought. I want that job.
September 18, 2026 at 8:28 PM
An Updike interview line I read as a youth: “The hardest thing I do each day is climb the stairs to my writing room. And the second hardest thing I do is climb back down.”
That job, I thought. I want that job.
That job, I thought. I want that job.
This is entirely reasonable on Nabokov, Updike and Amis by VS Naipaul, as transmitted by Paul Theroux
September 18, 2026 at 2:32 PM
This is entirely reasonable on Nabokov, Updike and Amis by VS Naipaul, as transmitted by Paul Theroux
Hi, #booksky! I came off a nap musing about writers popular in the 1960s-80s, and whether they still get read. Names:
Muriel Spark, John Barth, and John Gardner. Are they forgotten now?
Kurt Vonnegut, John Updike, Philip Roth, William Styron.
Yours?
Muriel Spark, John Barth, and John Gardner. Are they forgotten now?
Kurt Vonnegut, John Updike, Philip Roth, William Styron.
Yours?
September 18, 2026 at 3:09 AM
Hi, #booksky! I came off a nap musing about writers popular in the 1960s-80s, and whether they still get read. Names:
Muriel Spark, John Barth, and John Gardner. Are they forgotten now?
Kurt Vonnegut, John Updike, Philip Roth, William Styron.
Yours?
Muriel Spark, John Barth, and John Gardner. Are they forgotten now?
Kurt Vonnegut, John Updike, Philip Roth, William Styron.
Yours?