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NEWS ABOUT: John Updike

John Updike stories: 6 news summaries

 Updike Mused 
 on Own  
 'Overdue 
 Demise'

3-stanza poem to be published this year

Jan 30, 09 12:44 PM CST
(Newser) - John Updike considered his own mortality, and did so with his usual wry wit. The evidence is in one of his last poems called "Requiem," writes the New York Post. It begins: "It came to me the other day: Were I to die, no one would... More »

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obituary • literature • John Updike • poem

APPRECIATION

 Updike: An Author 
 'Hoping to Talk to America' 

Superlatives hardly lacking in wake of writer's death at 76

Jan 27, 09 3:44 PM CST
(Newser) - John Updike, who died today at 76, was many things: Bob Ryan, in the Boston Globe, calls him the author of the “most spellbinding essay ever written about baseball.” For Carolyn Kellogg, in the Los Angeles Times, the first line of his story A&P displays a “... More »

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obituary • literature • novelist • author • novel • Ted Williams • John Updike • sports writer

OBITUARY

 John Updike 
 Dies at 76 

Pulitzer winner suffered from lung cancer, publisher says

Jan 27, 09 12:39 PM CST
(AP) - John Updike, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, prolific man of letters, and erudite chronicler of sex, divorce, and other adventures in postwar America, died today of lung cancer at age 76. A literary force who frequently appeared on best-seller lists, Updike penned novels, short stories, poems, criticism, the memoir Self-Consciousness, and... More »

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lung cancer • obituary • Pulitzer Prize • John Updike

 This Year's Bad-Sex Winners 

Paulo Coehlo, John Updike make shortlist for Bad Sex in Fiction award

Nov 22, 08 7:00 AM CST
(Newser) - Ten authors have joined the distinguished ranks of such literary luminaries as Norman Mailer and Tom Wolfe—as nominees for the annual Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction award. The dubious honor singles out “otherwise sound literary” fiction that includes “unconvincing, perfunctory, embarrassing or redundant passages of a... More »

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sex • list • Norman Mailer • John Updike • Alastair Campbell • Tom Wolfe • literary criticism • Paulo Coelho

NYT's Top Reads for 2007

Agent Zigzag and Foreskin's Lament among best 100
in Book Review

Nov 22, 07 5:17 PM CST
(Newser) - Recent write-ups say Americans should read more—but where to start? Try the New York Times' 100 notable books of 2007, ranging from fiction to poetry, essays to bios. Among the acclaimed page-turners:
  • Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal, Ben Macintyre
  • The Art of
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fiction • literature • top 10 • book • John Updike • Philip Roth • nonfiction books

Amazon's E-Book Gamble Gets Big Play

Newsweek looks at changes $399 device could wreak on reading

Nov 19, 07 3:24 AM CST
(Newser) - News that Amazon would debut its new Kindle e-book leaked earlier this week, and a Newsweek cover story has the full hype on what Jeff Bezos and company hope to achieve with it. "This isn't a device, it's a service," Bezos says of of the Kindle, pointing to... More »

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Google • publishing • reading • book • Jeff Bezos • Annie Proulx • John Updike • E Ink • Kindle • Amazon.com

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