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Sally Field headlines Collected Stories tie-in event

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thumb“Enormous Updike fan” Sally Field, the Oscar-winning actress, headlines a group of readers announced for an event intended to coincide with publication of John Updike: The Collected Stories.

“The Stories of John Updike” will be presented at 7:30 p.m. on October 16, 2013 at the Peter Jay Sharp Theatre, Symphony Space. Tony Kushner and others will introduce or read their favorite Updike stories. Phone 212-864-5400 for details.

It’s a part of Selected Shorts, a weekly public radio show broadcast on over 130 stations to about 300,000 listeners. It is produced by Symphony Space and WNYC Radio and distributed by Public Radio International. The show is recorded live at the popular New York City stage show, which began in 1985 and still enjoys sell-out audiences. The Selected Shorts podcast also ranks as one of the most popular podcasts on iTunes.

Garrison Keillor reads Updike’s “Baseball”

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Citi FieldThe Writer’s Almanac for Tuesday, June 25, 2013, featured Updike’s poem “Baseball,” which seems even more appropriate to share as Tuesday’s All-Star Game  draws nearer.

In fact, it’s tempting to contact starting NL first basemen Joey Votto to ask him how accurate Updike’s second-stanza simile seems—if he was ever “scared / of the shortstop’s wild throw / that stretches you out like a gutted deer.”

“Baseball” appeared in Endpoint, confirming Updike’s sustained interest in the Great American Pastime throughout his life.

“Mrs Updike” radio teledrama is broadcast on BBC Radio

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Screen Shot 2013-02-10 at 6.13.57 PM“Mrs Updike,” a 90-minute radio play by Margaret Heffernan “about the tempestuous relationship between one of the most famous American writers of the twentieth century, John Updike, and his mother,” was broadcast today by BBC Radio and can be heard online for the next seven days. Thanks to member Andrew Moorhouse for tipping us off to it.

“Mrs Updike” features Eileen Atkins as the title character, Charles Edwards as John Updike, Josef Lindsay as Young John Updike, Stuart Milligan as Wesley, Garrick Hagon as Springer, Joseph May as the Interviewer, and Lorelei King as Lara. Heffernan has written three plays for radio, “including a pair of plays about Enron.”  Continue reading →