RIP: John Updike
The news is all over, but it bears mentioning: John Updike has died.
John Updike, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, prolific man of letters and erudite chronicler of sex, divorce and other adventures in the postwar prime of the American empire, died Tuesday at age 76.
The remembrances are coming up all over; I don’t have a lot to add, except to say I’m saddened by this news. I’ve lost touch with his work over the past few years, but I fondly remember the books of his I’ve read, and the interviews he gave.
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John Updike’s conventional wisdom seems to have affected a lot of people — I see little quotes of his all over