"Pineapple Street" author and longtime Knopf editor Jenny Jackson returned to the North Shore for her second novel, which ...

Updike the letter writer is recognizably the Updike of stories and novels: alert to surfaces, exacting about tone, attentive to how feeling registers in objects and habits. The letters reveal a man ...

A brilliant prose stylist, confident, amiable, and wonderfully lucid when talking about other people’s problems, Updike rarely confessed or confronted his own. One day in the fall of 1951, when he was ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In 1951, when he was an undergraduate at Harvard University, John Updike’s mother complained that his letters ...

John Updike remains one of the most admired and prolific voices in American Literature. Over five decades he produced novels, short stories, poems, criticism, and essays that examine faith and art, ...

In a 1989 memoir called “Self-Consciousness,” John Updike (1932-2009) remembered his childhood sense “of an embowering wide world arranged for my mystification and entertainment.” In many ways, this ...

Isaac Updike of Ketchikan feels ready to compete against the best from around the globe at the 2025 World Track and Field Championships. The 33-year-old 3,000-meter steeplechase runner will be ...

Greg Archer reviews and interviews with TV and film personalities have appeared in USA Today Network, Huffington Post, The Advocate, and other media outlets. Learn more at Greg Archer's website. Prime ...

More than once, Begley reports, Updike instructed New Yorker editors to put a short story in “the bank” (telling phrase), rather than publish it immediately, to avert legal action from the actual ...

A 2005 interview with the late John Updike, who passed away in January, 2009, hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. You must be logged in to post a comment.

“A man of no plausible address, with no apparent source for his considerable wealth, comes down the chimney after midnight while decent, law-abiding citizens are snug in their beds—is this not, at the ...

As Dr. Ann Updike and I sit down in her office here in King 139A, surrounded by her Paris-themed furnishings and a bookshelf full of titles relating to writing studies and indigenous rhetorics, she ...