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21 ore fa · We don’t get a sense of who she is behind her writing the way we do with, say, John Updike, John Cheever or Alice Munro. But this unyielding impersonality may be the way that she wants it: ...
1 giorno fa · Salman Rushdie vs. John Updike. In 2006, John Updike wrote a review for Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie, and had thoughts. Specifically, on Rushdie’s name choice for one of the book’s characters. He asked “Why, oh why, did Salman Rushdie, in his new novel, Shalimar the Clown, call one of his major characters Maximilian Ophuls?
10 ore fa · It’s a country made up of people trying to be American, even when they already are – a chorus of “I like to be in America” sung by people playing a part. Even someone as thoroughly American as John Updike thought of himself as “a literary spy within average, public-school, supermarket America”.
5 giorni fa · Creador prolífico, Updike es autor de más de 20 novelas y de una docena de colecciones de cuentos, así como poesía, ensayos, crítica literaria e inclusive libros para niños.
8 ore fa · She was admired without apparent envy, placed by the likes of Jonathan Franzen, John Updike and Cynthia Ozick at the very top of the pantheon. Munro's daughter, Sheila Munro, wrote a memoir in which she confided that "so unassailable is the truth of her fiction that sometimes I even feel as though I'm living inside an Alice Munro story."
1 giorno fa · A possible answer is: definitely not. People either do or do not like the Beatles, Frank Sinatra, Picasso, John Updike, and Janis Joplin, and whether they buy books, paintings, or music will depend on whether they expect to like the work, not on whether the person responsible for them is living and in good health.
2 giorni fa · The Witches of Eastwick, based on John Updike’s 1984 novel, is Miller’s Hollywood debut proper. Highly regarded among genre scholars due to its progressive view of witchcraft (until then usually depicted on screen in a negative light), it boasts a deliciously hammy turn by Jack Nicholson as a horny Satan wooing three bored, smalltown women.
