Greta Cuyler of the Reading Eagle wrote a nice article about David Updike’s talk at Alvernia University on Tuesday, October 12. Here’s the link.

Meanwhile, Society member Joan Youngerman, who was one of Updike’s Class of 1950 Shillington H.S. classmates, announced Tuesday that she was donating her personal correspondence from John Updike to The John Updike Society Archive at Alvernia. That’s a real treasure trove, and the Society and Alvernia are grateful for the donation.

Earlier in the week, Peter Brown, who lives in Washington, D.C. and teaches fiction writing at The Writer’s Center, contacted the Society to say he will donate two Updike artifacts to the archive, framed magazines featuring Updike on the cover: a 1968 Time and a 1970 Esquire. They will make great additions to the room in which the archives will be housed, and we thank Peter as well.