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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... hope ? -my last . In this terminal decade the editor of my favorite magazine , The New Yorker , became Tina Brown . It has been my bewildering professional experience to see the editors of that revered journal go from being much older ...
... hope ? -my last . In this terminal decade the editor of my favorite magazine , The New Yorker , became Tina Brown . It has been my bewildering professional experience to see the editors of that revered journal go from being much older ...
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... hope that I might become a Critic at Large , a few bouquets of related titles for me to admire and address ; in this vol- ume's section " Medleys , " the first two conjunctions were my idea , and the next two theirs . Presciently , they ...
... hope that I might become a Critic at Large , a few bouquets of related titles for me to admire and address ; in this vol- ume's section " Medleys , " the first two conjunctions were my idea , and the next two theirs . Presciently , they ...
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... hope and aspiration swooping in our American skies . The two concepts nest at the heart of what we like to think makes the United States an exemplary and revolutionary place ; yet neither is unambiguous or with- out its problematical ...
... hope and aspiration swooping in our American skies . The two concepts nest at the heart of what we like to think makes the United States an exemplary and revolutionary place ; yet neither is unambiguous or with- out its problematical ...
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... hope that has brought millions here , and that motivates millions still . Not to serve a king , but to become , in Huey Long's phrase , every man a king . The American conditions of equality and freedom are supposed to liberate the ...
... hope that has brought millions here , and that motivates millions still . Not to serve a king , but to become , in Huey Long's phrase , every man a king . The American conditions of equality and freedom are supposed to liberate the ...
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... an atmo- sphere of mutual trust , and the legend of equality , blazoned in our docu- ments and coinage , has served to lubricate American motion , and to soothe with hope of betterment the old sore spots of 14 : MATTERS OF STATE.
... an atmo- sphere of mutual trust , and the legend of equality , blazoned in our docu- ments and coinage , has served to lubricate American motion , and to soothe with hope of betterment the old sore spots of 14 : MATTERS OF STATE.
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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 |
65 | 868 |
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