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updike:surprising the dawn cottonfields
…In John Updike’s Rabbit Run, a former high school basketball star comes home to find his pregnant wife drunk before the television set; the living room is littered with toys, his wife is out for cigarettes, the car has been … Continue reading
updike: slow accretions of random detail
If J.D. Salinger reflected what the young would like to be, John Updike told us what people actually were…. Updike claimed he did this all by accident. Updike believed that “a writer’s business is not to write about his own … Continue reading
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Tagged art blog, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, John Hoyer Updike, John Lyon, John Mullan, John Sutherland, John Updike, John Updike Henry Bech, Lev Grossman, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Orville Prescott
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updike: small appliances of civilization
…”They were just people, members of the race of white anmals…Highly neural, brachycephalic, unquely able to oppose their thumbs to the four other digits, they bred with elegant settlements, and both burned and interred their dead.” They were the people … Continue reading
FOURTEEN PIANOS & 25,000 BOOKS
E.L. Doctorow’s novel Homer and Langley, is based on the real life story of the two Collyer brothers of Harlem who lived alone in their childhood home on Fifth Avenue. Homer narrates the story, which takes place over the course … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert & David Maysle, Collyer Brothers, E.L. Doctorow, Edith Bouvier Beale, Frank Lidz, Grey gardens, Homer and Langley, Homer and Langley Collyer, J.D. Salinger, Maysle Brothers, Michael Sucsy, Orville Prescott
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