If you’ve been following The John Updike Society on Facebook or on this website you’ve noticed that the news as of late has been dominated by responses to the Adam Begley biography of John Updike. But what we haven’t considered is that every article and every review needs photos to go with the copy, and as Writer Pictures, a source that provides copyrighted material for the media, observes, the Begley biography has sparked an “Uptick in Updike Interest.”

You’ve no doubt read that the Begley-Updike connection is Begley’s father, Louis, who was a Harvard classmate of Updike’s, and the article also includes a photo of the elder Begley.