BNA_Daily | June 18, 2010
With John Updike, the World Cup, and Martin Scorsese, today’s news is particularly star studded, but you won’t find it on TMZ.
Calling all Updike scholars! This fall, the first ever John Updike Conference will be held in Reading, Pennsylvania, sponsored by Alvernia University and the John Updike Society. The conference will feature a keynote address [...]
BNA_Daily | June 1, 2009
In My Father’s Tears and Other Stories, John Updike (who passed away in January) returns to the small town settings he is known for and explores life through the eyes of several aging, male narrators. There are hints of autobiography throughout, which should thrill fans of his 2003 collection The Early Stories, 1953-1975. Rather than [...]
BNA_Editor | January 27, 2009
If you haven’t already heard, the world lost one of its true literary giants today when John Updike, the poet laureate of suburban American angst, died at the age of seventy-six from lung cancer. It’s hard to imagine a more profoundly prolific American author and, if you haven’t already encountered Updike’s Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom, the [...]
