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'The Kindly Ones' author wins Bad Sex in Fiction prize
... gave the annual prize to British writer Rachel Johnson for a passage in her satirical novel "Shire Hell." John Updike was awarded a lifetime achievement award after he had been shortlisted for the prize four times in its 17-year history. Literary ... Comment?
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Banks get tough on. . . the mugs who bailed them out
... icons like the Big Mac and Bud. Now, however, the image is tired and corny and what online porno punter needs a John Updike short story to convince themselves they are using all of their organs? Christie Hefner's resignation early this year was the ... Comment?
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Why Martin Amis won't shut up about feminism
... cynic. "Even the darkest writers are in fact lovers of life," he explains. "It's an amorous business, being a writer. Updike said of Nabokov, Comment?
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... homosexuality. One of the job's few perks is that Cheever was also much written about by Saul Bellow and John Updike, the sweetest prose stylists in postwar American literature. Like Yates, Cheever was a drunkard perennially insecure about his ... Comment?
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... Gordimer conceived of a book called "Telling Tales," a collection of stories by renowned authors like John Updike, Salman Rushdie and Susan Sontag, published in 2004. Gordimer explained to interviewer Charlie Rose in December 2004 that all proceeds ... Comment?
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Book Review: My Father's Tears and Other Stories by John Updike
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My Father's Tears and Other Stories By John Updike Knopf Doubleday 304 pp.; $30 Reviewed by Randy Boyagoda John Updike published some 60 books during his lifetime. Comment?
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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. Comment?
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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. Comment?
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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. Comment?
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... British novelist to achieving the kind of metaphysical prose favoured by American writers such as Philip Roth, John Updike and, above all, Saul Bellow, who seems the primary influence here. To Heaven by Water employs the sudden leaps between first ... Comment?
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... away with such a carefree approach. But in a more vivid sense, "Haffnerian" means a bit like a mix of Nabokov's Pnin, Updike's Rabbit and Roth's Portnoy. It means a literary construct that Thirlwell enjoys principally for the way it permits him to ... Comment?
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... not an option Jon Carroll Somewhere in this elaborate rubbish pile I call my office there's a quote from a late John Updike poem ruminating on how long he will be remembered after he dies. He did die, of course - apparently we all will, which is... ... Comment?
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... out of writing, I discovered Saul Bellow - first Humboldt's Gift and then Herzog. I had long before discovered John Updike, whom I revered, but there was something about Humboldt's Gift - the sheer ecstatic pleasure of the writing, the intensity of ... Comment?
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Alaska handcycling: Racing through Glacier Park
... division, so I will be able to watch the race unfold. My "team" that I am piloting is pretty incredible - Matt Updike (USA - Beijing Paralympian and three time racer in Rome), Stefan Baumann (Germany) and Elmar Sternath (Austria). All three are at ... Comment?
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