More Matter: Essays and CriticismRandom House Publishing Group, 19 февр. 2009 г. - Всего страниц: 928 In this collection of nonfiction pieces, John Updike gathers his responses to nearly two hundred invitations into print, each “an opportunity to make something beautiful, to find within oneself a treasure that would otherwise remain buried.” Introductions, reviews, and humorous essays, paragraphs on New York, religion, and lust—here is “more matter” commissioned by an age that, as the author remarks in his Preface, calls for “real stuff . . . not for the obliquities and tenuosities of fiction.” Still, the novelist’s shaping hand, his gift for telling detail, can be detected in many of these literary considerations. Books by Edith Wharton, Dawn Powell, John Cheever, and Vladimir Nabokov are incisively treated, as are biographies of Isaac Newton, Abraham Lincoln, Queen Elizabeth II, and Helen Keller. As George Steiner observed, Updike writes with a “solicitous, almost tender intelligence. The critic and the poet in him . . . are at no odds with the novelist; the same sharpness of apprehension bears on the object in each of Updike’s modes.” |
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... Dancing ” and “ Henry Bech Interviews Updike . " ALLURE : " Get Thee Behind Me , Suntan . " PLAYBOY : " M.M. in Brief " and " The Vargas Girl . " MICHIGAN QUARTERLY : " The Disposable Rocket . " FORBES : " The State of the Union , as of ...
... Dancing ” and “ Henry Bech Interviews Updike . " ALLURE : " Get Thee Behind Me , Suntan . " PLAYBOY : " M.M. in Brief " and " The Vargas Girl . " MICHIGAN QUARTERLY : " The Disposable Rocket . " FORBES : " The State of the Union , as of ...
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... Dancing 33 Get Thee Behind Me , Suntan 37 V 41 Lust 42 The Song of Solomon 46 LITERATURE Religion and Literature Fiction : A Dialogue 63 Print : A Dialogue A Different Ending 1338 50 65 70 THE BURGLAR ALARM THE GLITTERING CITY ...
... Dancing 33 Get Thee Behind Me , Suntan 37 V 41 Lust 42 The Song of Solomon 46 LITERATURE Religion and Literature Fiction : A Dialogue 63 Print : A Dialogue A Different Ending 1338 50 65 70 THE BURGLAR ALARM THE GLITTERING CITY ...
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... dance to her tune - contributing , for instance , to the back - page " Shouts and Murmurs " which she revived from the days of Alexander Woollcott , and answering her call to write about Lana Turner and Gene Kelly , whose videos I was ...
... dance to her tune - contributing , for instance , to the back - page " Shouts and Murmurs " which she revived from the days of Alexander Woollcott , and answering her call to write about Lana Turner and Gene Kelly , whose videos I was ...
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... dancing , suntanning , and the Fifties . Among living American authors , I take , it may be , an anomalously positive or at least hopeful view of our Republic's progress ; hence I am occasionally trusted by the powers that be to expound ...
... dancing , suntanning , and the Fifties . Among living American authors , I take , it may be , an anomalously positive or at least hopeful view of our Republic's progress ; hence I am occasionally trusted by the powers that be to expound ...
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... Dancing WHAT DO WOMEN WANT ? They want , evidently , to dance . Why ? Why , in the days of my youth , did girls permit themselves to be seized and clumsily pushed about by sweating , overexcited , embarrassed boys ? Not only did they ...
... Dancing WHAT DO WOMEN WANT ? They want , evidently , to dance . Why ? Why , in the days of my youth , did girls permit themselves to be seized and clumsily pushed about by sweating , overexcited , embarrassed boys ? Not only did they ...
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THE BURGLAR ALARM 220 | 72 |
THE GLITTERING CITY | 79 |
GEOGRAPHICAL CALENDRICAL TOPICAL | 97 |
Babies by Mary Steichen Calderone and Edward Steichen | 684 |
Updike and I | 757 |
Introduction to SelfSelected Stories | 767 |
Foreword to Brother Grasshopper | 773 |
Note on My Father on the Verge of Disgrace | 776 |
Note for an Exhibit of New Yorker Cartoons | 787 |
Christmas Cards | 797 |
Reflections on Radio | 803 |
INTRODUCTIONS | 139 |
AMERICAN PAST MASTERS | 214 |
PHOTOS | 266 |
NORTH AMERICAN CONTEMPORARIES | 291 |
OVERSEAS | 338 |
OTHER CONTINENTS | 397 |
MEDLEYS | 434 |
THINGS AS THEY | 571 |
MOVIES | 641 |
Accepting the Bobst Award | 810 |
Introduction to the Easton Press Edition of the Rabbit Novels | 816 |
Special Message for the Franklin Library Edition of Memories | 825 |
Special Message for the Franklin Library Edition | 832 |
Foreword to the French Translation of Facing Nature | 838 |
Index | 857 |
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