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