Updike collectors take note: The extensive collection of Michael Broomfield (of Broomfield & De Bellis bibliography fame) is for sale, item-by-item, from Clouds Hill Books in Montclair, N.J. Whether you’re looking to add an item to your collection, buy something … Continue reading →

A 1966 interview, “John Updike: ‘One way to make a living that didn’t necessarily inflict pain on other people,’” is available to watch now on YouTube. Some of the questions overlap the Life magazine interview, so odds are it’s connected somehow. … Continue reading →

Boston radio’s Christopher Lydon has interviewed Updike on numerous occasions, and now he’s turned his admiration for Updike into “Open Source” conversations. In “John Updike and his Terrorist,” Lydon shares an interview he did with Updike about the post-9/11 novel … Continue reading →

Dark web. Deep AI. Sounds sinister, doesn’t it? And one could picture it becoming so in an Updike novel . . . or at least something that leads to unintended consequences. Now you can “chat” with John Updike via Deep … Continue reading →

Greg EplerWood reported that Rabbit Run, the section of a tiny not-quite-a-creek near Shillington named in honor of Updike’s second novel, has an uncommon resident: a yellow, freshwater sponge. Last summer, Angelica Creek Watershed Association’s Jill and Stan Kemp sent … Continue reading →

This time of year John Updike’s poem “Seven Stanzas at Easter” is often reprinted and just as often pondered. The most recent to tackle the poem is the Maverick Philosopher, who is listed among The Times of London’s 100 Best … Continue reading →

John MacDougall posted a May 1 2019 entry on his blog, The New Yorker and Me, titled “Updike on Van Gogh,” in which he draws attention to “Updke’s great posthumous essay collection Higher Gossip” and considers what he considers to … Continue reading →

Last month The Atlantic delved into their archives and pulled out “The Labyrinth,” a poem by Jorge Luis Borges that was translated by John Updike and published in their April 1969 issue. Even the most ardent fans might find themselves … Continue reading →

The “Book Marks” website celebrated what would have been John Updike’s 87th birthday with a list of early reviews to the “Rabbit” novels for which the author is most famous. Here are a few of them: “Rabbit, Run is a … Continue reading →

“Just as a day may come at sunset into its most glorious hour, or a life toward the gray-bearded end enter a halcyon happiness, December golf, as long as it lasts, can seem the sweetest golf of the year,” John … Continue reading →

In an article titled “In search of the neutrino, ghost particle of the universe,” The Guardian turned to John Updike again. “Every second,” Robin McKie writes, “billions of neutrinos pass through our bodies. The sun sends trillions streaming across space … Continue reading →

A blogger on The Nature of Things posted an entry titled “Houston, we have a World Series champion! in celebration of the team’s (and city’s) first World Series championship. “Baseball is a game that will break your heart two times … Continue reading →

On WNYC guest host Sonia Manzano presented three works about “entering uncharted territories.” “An early John Updike fable, ‘The Different One,’ imagines a bold bunny. It’s read by Michael Emerson. A gentrified town morphs into a dreamscape in Steven Millhauser’s … Continue reading →

John Updike’s poem, “Living with a Wife,” was first published in Crazyhorse 10 (March 1972) and is now online via the Crazyhorse archives. Here’s how the legendary journal describes itself: Founded by the poet Tom McGrath in Los Angeles in … Continue reading →

BBC Radio 4 thinks so. They recently posted an audio clip—Episode 1 of 10—of Rabbit, Run with the following description: The post-war novel that summed up middle-class white America and established John Updike as the major American author of his … Continue reading →

How can April be the cruelest month when it’s National Poetry Month? And The Atlantic teases readers with a reminder that John Updike wasn’t just a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist. He was a pretty good poet as well. Exhibit A is … Continue reading →

The New Yorker has posted a full article by John Updike titled “The Future of Faith; Confessions of a churchgoer,” which was originally published in the Nov. 29, 1999 issue. More than a reflection, the essay illustrates the research that … Continue reading →

The New Yorker fiction podcast “Roger Angell Reads John Updike” features Updike’s long-time editor reading his story “Playing with Dynamite” and talking with current New Yorker fiction editor Deborah Treisman about editing Updike. Here’s the link.

The featured poem for Friday, Nov. 27, 2015 on The Writer’s Almanac with Garrison Keillor is Updike’s “Tools.” It’s in print format with a link to download Keillor reading the poem. It’s easy to see why Keillor chose this particular poem for Black … Continue reading →

Jim Higgins, of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, has been reading his way through the two-volume Library of America Collected Stories, but decided to take a detour this week and read and respond to the recently published volume of Updike’s Selected … Continue reading →