John Updike

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• Waxing Poetic: Winter Mask

  
  Arts Desk — Authority: 143
  Living in Palisades , that benevolent Siberia, I have to take the bus to get anywhere. So when they closed down Metro’s above-ground services at 1 p.m. Saturday I found myself even more isolated than usual. Two friends and I had plans to make camp at their place in East Capitol and get ourselves snowed into bars on ...
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• Snowy reading

  
  writerjenn — Authority: 422
  One of my favorite books to read when it snows: The Centaur , by John Updike (because of the big snowstorm at the end). "This discovery is ever surprising, that Heaven can so prettily condescend. Snow puts us with Jupiter Pluvius among the clouds. What a crowd! What a crowd of tiny flakes sputters downward in ...
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• Wednesday Wordplay – Cher before Bette Davis

  
  Chicago Theater Blog — Authority: 136
  Inspirational Quotes A sailor without a destination cannot hope for a favorable wind.             — Leon Tec, M.D. If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life.             — Cher The real power behind whatever success I have now was ...
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• Argentina to Ban Smoking at Iguazu Falls

  
  The Argentine Post — Authority: 416
  The great American novelist John Updike once said of a character in a short story that she “had a nature-lover’s hatred of smoking and drinking.”Updike’s description led me...
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• Links: AST Company

  
  Mark Athitakis' American Fiction Notes — Authority: 562
  Responses to the closing of Kirkus Reviews : Horn Book editor Roger Sutton on the magazine’s children’s book coverage: “What Kirkus did was to treat books for children and adults the same in the same publication.” Carolhoda Books editorial director Andrew Karre : “[T]here is no circumstance ...
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• a wintry snippet from John Updike

  
  Quoth the redhead, 'nivermoore.' — Authority: 106
  "The days are short, The sun a spark Hung thin between The dark and dark."
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• Studies in Crap: 1904s top sexologists on our helpless, unclean, flower-like women

  
  Runnin' Scared — Authority: 717
  Each Thursday [or Friday, when the editor is having one of his "spells"], your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, es...
  2 weeks ago

• Pie in the (Not) Sky

  
  The Laughorist — Authority: 126
  The surprise of it all. The look on their faces. The initial suspicions. The relief. Simple and radical. We started on Jamar Drive, just down the block from the church. Someone had suggested it as a gesture of radical hospitality. So, on the preceding Saturday, the Saturday before Thanksgiving, a group of older and ...
  3 weeks ago

• Bad Sex in Fiction Awards: This Year’s Nominees and Our All-Time Top 10

  
  Flavorwire — Authority: 692
  It may not be the Nobel Prize, but the competition for this year’s “Bad Sex in Fiction” award is just as stiff (cringe — pun intended). Philip Roth is on the Literary Review’s shortlist, and he’s in good company — current nominees include Amos Oz, Nick Cave, and John Banville, while past candidates ...
  3 weeks ago

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