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I DON'T WANT TO BE A TEASE, BUT there's a scene in Justin Cartwright's latest novel To Heaven By Water that is so blatantly taboo-breaking that it's impossible to talk about without shattering one's enjoyment of the book.

Actors from A Contemporary Theater will read from a selection of John Updike's short stories.

The blurb for John Updike's last collection of stories finds him in a "valedictory mood," words that speak truly to the stories, individually and collectively.

'The world itself is stolen goods. All property is theft and those who have stolen most of it make the laws for the rest of us.' UPDIKE must have referred to the aristocrats of his time and this quote could be relevant to the past.

Cristina Henriquez reads at Elliott Bay Book Company. Her novel The World in Half is about a woman going to Panama to meet her father.

Caveats Thursday, March 26, 2009 Notes for Thinking, Links for Noting * Regan Penaluna discusses Masham and Astell at First Things.

The great writer's friends, family, and colleagues convened this week at the New York Public Library to pay tribute.

FAMILY MATTERS Danzy Senna looks back at the fallout from her parents' bi-racial marriage - and divorce.

Google & the Future of Books : How can we navigate through the information landscape that is only beginning to come into view? The question is more urgent than ever following the recent settlement between ...

I follow Scotta TMs ironically titled post by noting that my liking for Updike was never a pretence.

John Updike, who once told an interviewer "my subject is the American Protestant small-town middle class," is best known for his four "Rabbit" novels.

It's testimony to Updike's powers that he could shed so much light on three people he had never heard of at the time: Barack Obama Jr.

Published: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 at 11:11 p.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 at 11:11 p.m. NEW YORK John Updike, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, prolific man of letters and erudite ...

Updike, who passed away Tuesday at the age of 76, was more literary conglomerate than mere author.

In his 24 novels and nearly 200 short stories, John Updike, the great writer who died on Tuesday, created countless characters of all stripes and shapes ranging from a randy Toyota salesman to an African ...

John Updike, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, prolific man of letters and erudite chronicler of sex, divorce and other adventures in the postwar prime of the American empire, died Tuesday at age 76. Updike, best known for his four 'Rabbit' novels, died of lung cancer at a hospice near his home in Beverly Farms, Mass., according to his longtime publisher, Alfred A. Knopf.

A literary writer who frequently appeared on best-seller lists, the tall, hawk-nosed Updike wrote novels, short stories, poems, criticism, the memoir 'Self-Consciousness' and even a famous essay about baseball great Ted Williams.