Search Results by tag: John Updike

John Updike Society to purchase author’s childhood home

The John Updike Society announced last week that it has entered into an agreement to purchase the Shillington, Pennsylvania, home the Pulitzer Prize“winning author lived in as a child. The house, which resides at 117 ... Read More »

May 14, 2012 | Filed under: Authors

Bookmarks: Moore on Barthelme, Updike on Cheever, plus more shakeups in the U.S. retail sector

By Stuart Woods

Sundry links from around the Web: Lorrie Moore reviews the new Donald Barthelme biography (you can hear her thoughts here). The late John Updike had an early look at the John Cheever biography. Apparently, one ... Read More »

March 6, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

John Updike dies

By Danielle Ng-See-Quan

Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and man of letters John Updike has died of lung cancer, at the age of 76. From the Associated Press: A literary writer who frequently appeared on best seller lists, the tall, ... Read More »

January 27, 2009 | Filed under: Authors

Nobel jury head slams U.S. authors

By Scott MacDonald

According to The Guardian, Nobel jury head Horace Engdahl has got a bit of a hate-on for U.S. authors, describing U.S. writing as "insular and ignorant": Permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy Horace Engdahl told ... Read More »

October 1, 2008 | Filed under: Awards, Opinion

Bookmarks: new Bond in Russia!, new Thunderbirds everywhere!, no new autobiographical characters in Salman Rushdie novels!

By Nathan Whitlock

Some book-related links: New James Bond novel gets Russian publisher (MI6) New Thunderbirds novels after more than forty years (SWFA Pressbook) Salman Rushdie vows to stop creating autobiographical characters (The Canadian Press) Mold: the enemy ... Read More »

February 11, 2008 | Filed under: Book links

Smiley's boogie nights

By Leigh Anne Williams

American author Jane Smiley defends her sexytimes-filled new novel, Ten Days in the Hills, in an op-ed piece for the Los Angeles Times. She says she was inspired by The Decameron and "wanted to go ... Read More »

February 22, 2007 | Filed under: Authors

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