Updike

Trains, Planes, On The Street...

Gabe Habash | Posted 05.25.2011

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It's time for another installment of Reading In Public! When someone takes a book into a public place, it's a big commitment. We have lots of things ...

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eBay's Literary Odditites

Los Angeles Times | Posted 05.25.2011

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Inspired by Salinger's toilet -- which was listed for sale on EBay for $1 million -- Jacket Copy decided to see what other literary-ish items are cur...

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John Updike's Archive 'Holds The Keys To His Literary Universe'

The New York Times | Posted 05.25.2011

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"Updike's archive may be the last great paper trail," Adam Begley, a critic and literary journalist now at work on a biography of Updike, said in an e...

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New York Review Caricaturist Dead: David Levine Dies At 83

AP | KAREN MATTHEWS | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — David Levine, an artist whose witty caricatures illustrated The New York Review of Books for more than 40 years, has died. He was 83....

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John Updike's Archive Acquired By Harvard

The Boston Globe | Tracy Jan | Posted 05.25.2011

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Harvard University has acquired the manuscripts, correspondences, and other papers of John Updike, a celebrated member of the Class of 1954 who kept a...

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John Updike Estate Signs With Wylie Agency

The New York Observer | Leon Neyfakh | Posted 05.25.2011

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THERE AREN'T MANY literary agents in New York City who can honestly claim never to have lost a client to Andrew Wylie. The man poaches talent from his...

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John Updike: Ted Williams of Our Prose

Christopher Lydon | Posted 05.25.2011

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Christopher Lydon

Updike had a good priest's devotion to his writing vocation. And for all the sex, laughter and inspired mischief we gratefully associate with him, he had also an air almost of sanctity.

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