Anything goes these days when it comes to online journalism, partly because so much of what passes for news is opinion posted by untrained non-professionals, but also partly because times have changed. Just not The Times. Though a recently posted … Continue reading →

In a New York Times article to promote her new book The Violent Hour: Great Writers at the End, Katie Roiphe talks about the false notion that “when someone is dying, a new, honest, generous space opens up; that in the … Continue reading →

Members who attended the Second Biennial John Updike Conference and took the walking tour of Ipswich led by Michael Updike got to see the town’s most famous tree . . . before it had to be cut down. Now, a … Continue reading →

The current owners of a grand Georgian home on the North Shore where Updike lived for years have opened the house for a Boston Common Magazine tour, complete with three photos of the Haven Hill house as it looks now: … Continue reading →

The Boston Globe printed an article today titled “A famous writer slept here, but do house buyers care?” in which Updike’s Beverly Farms house was mentioned. “What does a literary reputation do for the value of a house? Not much, … Continue reading →