Literary Odds & Ends

gathered by Jennifer Kilgore-Caradec

Friday, October 31, 2008

John Updike comments on elections in 2008

Imagining how Rabbit would vote, Updike said that Obama seemed to be "more free" as a candidate. He was interviewed by Sam Tenenhaus of the New York Times. Updike mentioned that his father had voted for FDR.

JKC at 10:17 AM

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JKC: Jennifer Kilgore-Caradec teaches English at the University of Caen in Normandy. She is co-editor of "La poésie de Geoffrey Hill et la modernité" (L'Harmattan, 2007), "Selected Poems from Modernism to Now" (CSP, 2012), "Poetry & Religion: Figures of the Sacred" (Peter Lang, 2013), "European Voices in the Poetry of W.B. Yeats and Geoffrey Hill" (Peter Lang, 2015). Her research interests include Contemporary Poetry, British and American Literature, especially Literature in conjunction with Memory, History, Religion, and War.

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