I am reliably informed by consumers of old-school softcore pornography that Playboy was once, in point of fact, worth reading for the articles. Norman Mailer, P.G. Wodehouse, William F. Buckley, James T. Farrell, John Updike, ...

The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding. That's John Updike. (via swissmiss) Tags: John Updike   NYC...

Yes, J.D. Salinger is dead; he died Jan. 27, exactly a year after the death of John Updike. And yes, we lost Kurt Vonnegut and Norman Mailer in 2007. But do four deceased literary lions constitute a death sentence for...

Although I have read Rabbit, Run at least four times, I have read the other Rabbit books by John Updike only once. While I thought Rabbit is Rich was worth reading, the other two were tepid and lackluster, period pieces...

Tomorrow is the one year anniversary of the death of John Updike.  Fittingly I just finished Rabbit at Rest, the fourth and final installment in the life of Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom.  And for any of you who’ve found yourself intrigue...

Two good links re: Roiphe and then we’ll move on: Andrew Seal uses the essay to dig into John Updike’s Rabbit, Run, while Anne Trubek argues that the foofaraw is a missed opportunity for a more serious discussion about sexism. Corm...

The cuddle trumps sodomy!  At The New York Times, the controversial post-feminist Katie Roiphe explores the difference between the descriptions of sex in the last generation of American male novelists (Philip Roth, John Updike, Norm...

Katie Roiphe has a very long, very erudite diatribe in the New York Times comparing the great and virile male novelists of yesteryear (Philip Roth, John Updike, Norman Mailer etc.) to our overthinking dude writers of today (Dave Egg...

THERE AREN'T MANY literary agents in New York City who can honestly claim never to have lost a client to Andrew Wylie. The man poaches talent from his competitors regularly and without reservation, and he has said repeatedly that he...

WFUBMC Anthony Atala conducts research in his lab at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine. One of his projects involves bioengineered rabbit penises. When the late author John Updike wrote the novel "Rabbit R...

Because of a reporting error, a story on Page 3E on Sunday listed author John Updike as still living. He died in January. Link Thanks, Ernest!

A timeless tribute to David Levine by John Updike: "Besides offering us the delight of recognition, his drawings comfort us, in an exacerbated and potentially desperate age, with the sense of a watching presence, an eye informed by ...

Ray Dennis Steckler (producer/director/screenwriter)Charles H. Schneer (producer)John Updike (writer)James WhitmoreMaurice Jarre (composer)Andy HallettMarilyn ChambersThe Vault of Horror...

Having just finished Rabbit Redux, I’m now three-quarters of the way through John Updike’s Rabbit series, although I haven’t read the four books in the order in which they were written and take place, having started with the third b...

As another year slips away, a year that saw the passing of John Updike, here is a fine poem of his to celebrate or mourn the waning days of ought-nine: Perfection Wasted And another regrettable thing about death is the...

A while back I decided to introduce myself to John Updike’s character Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom by reading the third book in that series, Rabbit is Rich, since it had won the Pulitzer Prize.  As I noted in my review of that book, I ha...

John Updike, not Irving, wrote the novel The Witches of Eastwick, which has recently been turned into a TV series (Cable girl, 24 November, page 27, G2). Link

It's the season to give thanks. So after a year of griping, what are Evan Newmark and Dennis Berman grateful for? The quick answers: President Obama's sinking approval rating, John Updike, Helicopter Ben, China and America.

The New Yorker’s litblog, the Book Bench, has posted a lengthy 1978 interview of John Updike by two professors of English at the University of Sarajevo. Updike covers Moby-Dick, his writing routine, authors he enjoys who live outsid...

When John Updike died, Ben Shapiro declared that he "was not a great writer [nor] even a very good one," to which I replied:for Young Master Shapiro to choose, from a hefty body of work, the opening paragraph of Rabbit Redux to bury...