John Updike Called His Letters Dull. They’re Anything But.

The prolific novelist’s correspondence, collected for the first time, trace a life of literary brilliance, turbulent loves ...

Letters From John Updike

Updike was not a hoarder the way some of the characters in his novels are (in Rabbit, Run, the Angstrom apartment is a ...
The American Conservative

Updike at Rest

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... Selected Letters of John Updike, edited by James Schiff. Knopf, 912 pages. At one point in “The Music School,” the loveliest and most ...
LAist

Remembering John Updike, Literary Legend

Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist John Updike died of lung cancer Jan. 27. He was 76. Over his decades-long career, Updike authored more than 25 novels and over a dozen short story collections, as well ...
KCRW

John Updike, Part 1

The subject of John Updike's recent bestseller required that he contrast his own reliance on faith with the more violent faith of a young Islamic terrorist. This first of a two-part conversation ...
The Atlantic

John Updike's Boyhood Home Is a Real Fixer-Upper

Today in publishing and literature: Roger Ailes is reportedly writing his memoir, John Updike's house is for sale on eBay, and David Maraniss is now poking around Barack Obama's college days. Highly ...
SFGate

Updike wins lifetime award for bad sex writing

It's not quite the Nobel Prize, but John Updike has a new literary accolade: laureate of bad sex. Updike, 76, who has a long history of detailing coupling on the page, won a lifetime achievement award ...
LAist

Novelist John Updike Dies

And I'm Robert Siegel. American literature has lost one of its greatest voices. John Updike died this morning. The two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author died from lung cancer at a hospice near his ...