Friday, February 6, 2009

Saying Goodbye to John Updike

A sheaf of links.

Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, "John Updike, a Lyrical Writer of the Middle-Class Man, Dies at 76," New York Times (January 28, 2009).
Lorrie Moore, "The Complete Updike," New York Times (January 28, 2009).
John Updike, "Requiem," New York Times (January 29, 2009).
Verlyn Klinkenborg, "John Updike," New York Times (January 28, 2009).
Clyde Haberman, "Thoughts on the City by a New York Writer who Avoided New York," New York Times (January 29, 2009).
Charles McGrath, "John Updike's Mighty Pen," New York Times (January 31, 2009).
Martin Krasney, Letter to the Editor, New York Times (February 5, 2009).

Topics

17th C (2) 19th C (2) 2000s (1) 20th C (2) 21rst C (1) Adrienne Monnier (1) Aesthetics (1) African-American (2) alcohol (1) Alice Walker (1) American Literature (3) American Writers in Paris (1) Amira Baraka (1) Autofiction (1) Awards (1) Barack Obama (1) Bibliography Matters (3) Blogs (1) Bloomsbury (1) Canon (1) Carl Sandburg (1) Cézanne (1) Charles Sanders Peirce (1) Children's Books (1) Cities of Literature (1) Claude Lévi-Strauss (1) Community Reading and Activity (1) Critical Angles (1) Criticism (2) Criticism and Theory (1) Curtis Sittenfeld (1) D.H. Lawrence (2) Don Delillo (2) Doris Lessing (2) Dorothy Gallagher (1) Dorothy West (1) Dostoevsky (1) Drama (1) Duncan Grant (1) E.B. White (1) Edgar Allen Poe (1) Edinburgh (1) Editors (1) Emily Brontë (1) English Literature (1) Ernest Hemingway (1) Evagrius Ponticus (1) Everyman (2) F. Scott Fitzgerald (1) Federal Writer's Project (1) Fiction (10) Film (1) Flannery O'Connor (2) Flickr (1) fonts (1) Geoffrey Hill (1) George Herbert (1) George Orwell (1) Gertrude Stein (1) Grapes of Wrath (1) Harlem Renaissance (1) Harper Lee (1) Herman Wouk (1) Homage (1) Homer (1) Humor (1) Hunger (1) Interviews (1) Iowa (1) J.D. Salinger (3) Jack Kerouac (1) James Baldwin (1) James Joyce (1) John Steinbeck (1) John Updike (3) Josiah Royce (1) Joyce Carol Oates (2) Lawrence Wright (1) Literary Analysis (1) Literary History (1) Literary Tourism (1) Lorrie Moore (1) Louise Erdrich (1) Marianne Moore (1) Matisse (1) Maurice Sendak (1) Maxine Hong Kingston (1) Melbourne (1) Modernism (1) N.E.A. 20th C (1) Noah Webster (1) Norman Mailer (2) On-line (1) Opera (1) Pat Barker (1) Periodicals (2) Philip Roth (2) Philosophy (2) Photography (3) Picasso (1) Poetry (1) Politics (3) Poverty (1) Project Canterbury (1) Ralph Ellison (1) reading lists (2) Regeneration (1) Religion and Literature (4) Richard Ford (1) Richard Wright (2) Robert Giroux (1) Robert Lowell (1) RowanWilliams (1) Ruby Dee (1) Sandra Cisneros (1) Sébastien Brant (1) September 11 2001 (3) Short Story (2) Simon Garfield (1) Social Commentary (3) Southern Literature (2) Steve Jobs (1) Summer Reading (1) Sylvia Beach (1) Television (1) Textual Analysis (1) The House on Mango Street (1) Theatre (3) Thesis statement (1) Thomas Pynchon (1) Toni Morrison (2) Tony Harrison (1) Trojan War (1) Truman Capote (1) typography (2) University of Notre Dame (1) Vanessa Bell (1) Virginia Woolf (1) Walker Percy (1) War in Literature (7) Wickham Boyle (1) World War I (1) Writing (3) Writing tips (1) Zadie Smith (1) Zora Neale Hurston (1)