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Updike, Mississippi is located in Sharkey County. Zip codes in Updike, MS include 38721.

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Monday Nov 30 | CTV.ca

'The Kindly Ones' author wins Bad Sex in Fiction prize

The editors of the Literary Review magazine said best-selling American author Jonathan Littell won the prize for describing a sex act as "a jolt that emptied my head like a spoon scraping the inside of a soft-boiled egg." The offending passage compared female genitalia to various Greek fiends, including the mythical monster Gorgon and "a motionless ...

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Wed Oct 14, 2009

FindingDulcinea

Nadine Gordimer

Writer Nadine Gordimer has devoted her life to fighting for the rights and health of the less fortunate and oppressed.

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Fri Sep 25, 2009

SalemNews.com, Salem, MA

Family territory: Updike's son to read from his short story collection in Salem

When David Updike compares himself, as a writer, to anyone in his family, it is usually to his grandmother.

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Mon Aug 31, 2009

Buffalo News

Another Updike reveals rare gift for storytelling

Fair or not, it is next to impossible to read David Updike without comparison to his paterfamilias, John, the iconic American author who died earlier this year.

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Tue Aug 11, 2009

New Statesman

To Heaven by Water

For David Cross, the retired television journalist at the centre of Justin Cartwright's new novel, the line from Ulysses that gives the book its title is a prism of meanings and associations.

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Fri Aug 07, 2009

New Statesman

To Heaven by Water

For David Cross, the retired television journalist at the centre of Justin Cartwright's new novel, the line from Ulysses that gives the book its title is a prism of meanings and associations.

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Thu Jul 23, 2009

New Statesman

Humboldt's Gift

In South Africa as a child and a boy, I read a huge amount. There seems to have been something anthropomorphic about my early reading: animals flew, boys talked to horses and rodents were lovable.

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Sat Jun 27, 2009

Scotsman.com Living

Justin Cartwright interview: Out of the ordinary

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.

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Mon Jun 15, 2009

The Seattle Times

Book review | 'My Father's Tears': elegiac fiction by John Updike

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

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Sat Jun 13, 2009

Boston Globe

John Updike's final collection plumbs familiar themes, place of the heart

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.

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Thu Jun 11, 2009

The Namibian

Land Reform: The Debate Lingers

'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.

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